Daniel Carrera wrote:
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
What would be so bad if we were an overall office suite, payroll and
all. I agree that is unnecessary, but what is the harm, if it could
work.
The harm is that it's very poor design to have a single program that
tries to do everything. It's not just a matter of bloat. The code
quickly becomes unmanageable and stangant, and impossible to update or
fix. Modularity is a very important principle of of proper design. It
is a lot easier to maintain 10 programs of 1,000 lines each than one
program of 10,000 lines.
Just to play devil's advocate here... So the design of MSO with Word,
Excel, Powerpoint, Frontpage, and Outlook being separate programs that
"play nice" with each other is actually a better design than the
monolithic OOo?
Rod
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