On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 22:36 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Sometimes you can introduce a few options into a single base framework
that will make it good enough for pretty much everybody. Other times,
you'll have to introduce significantly different frameworks to enable
the system to behave optimally for different uses.
Too much choice can be bad, but concluding from this that choice is
bad in general, and then proceed to always take it away, is far worse.
That's what "sound technical decisions" are: negotiating these sort of
tradeoffs. There's no free lunch.
Havoc