Re:Finish Your Stuff (2015)
by marcosdumay on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:04PM
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I would say that grep is finished. Somebody, even the grep developers, may create something better, but it's something else, not grep. Even if it's called grep 4.0, there isn't much that one can change and still have the same software.
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Well grep is 47 years old. Still it took many years and many authors to reach a more or less steady state, because PEOPLE CANNOT STOP TINKERING.
This is, by far, the reason software doesn’t get finished.
Keeping some software extremely simple and focused is surprisingly controversial. Everyone in the world wants to add just. One. More. Little. Tweak. What could it hurt? It’s not quite complete without it, right?