[Python-Dev] YAGNI

[Guido van Rossum]

>     Tim> Heck, if Unix dweebs had applied YAGNI, ls wouldn't have 51 useless
>     Tim> options <wink>.
> 
> I believe the first couple Unix programmers did, though I doubt they thought
> of it in precisely that acronym.  It was the masses that followed (probably
> influenced by some expatriate VMS programmers) who got carried away with
> adding thirty-leven options to every little filter. <wink><wink>
> 
> Skip

I remember that way back at CWI we called "the BSD disease" -- after
our sysadmin had installed 4.0 BSD on our VAX, we were appalled by the
code size growth of most common utilities.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)