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the ultimate tool is the brain. everything else should only help it
Sunday, 04-Apr-99 06:33:04
that's one of the problems of the computing (and everything else too): to make one thing that does everything or to make many simple small independent things, that if combined (properly), could do the job.
1st approach is more end-user-easy (or at least seems so; in long term it is even harder); 2nd approach needs longer start BUT HAVE a flexibility, extensibility, changeability, robustness, portability, etc,etc,etc...
Compare a single POWERFUL computer with many small ones in a net (e.g. the web, or the brain itself); or one huge company against many small ones; etc...
or a centralized economics/decision-making against distributed ones..
The nature and the historical experience show that the 2nd type lives longer. But it does not mean that 1st type should be abandoned. It means that both things should co-exist, merge/morph together into subtypes, and never rely on 1st approach, coz it may fail badly.
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