Hey, check out Thomas Sowell’s latest column, wherein he takes on the notorious extraneous bells and whistles software industry:
One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things. Whether you want to play chess, take a picture, or do some other obvious and straightforward thing, you must first deal with a zillion options to do things you have no interest in doing.
The fact that there are innumerable features built into any product — whether computerized or not — does not automatically mean that you have to deal with the features you don’t want.
That’s because too much software is designed by developers, many of whom think vi was a pretty good interface.
