Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
 > This is the (IMHO) flawed philosphy of "Trend mongering" that leads
 > people/companies/programs to want to grab more and more.
 > 
 > What happened to the Unix philosphy of doing one thing and doing it
 > really well?
 > 
 > If the program is a web browser, it should be a web-browser and not
 > try to be a film-viewer, mail-reader, editor, programming interface
 > etc. etc.
 > 

I completely agree with the KISS principle, but there are a few cases
where thinking outside the box results in something that changes the way
software is written. Emacs for example. It might be a kitchen sink, but
when you get a complete desktop environment that fits within a few megabytes,
I am more than willing to accommodate it.

Sujith 
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http://sujith-m.blogspot.com
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