[CS-FSLUG] Random comment on comment

[Ed Hurst]

Aaron Patrick Lehmann wrote:

>>Been reading lots of tech/Linux/Unix stuff lately. If I see one more 
>>comment that something is "clean" without any definition, I'm going to 
>>permanenty disregard everthing that writer says. When I shaved my face 
>>for the sake of Army regulations, that was "clean" but very painful and 
>>I now refuse to do it. Does that mean "clean" in computing is something bad?
 >
 > What particular context are you referring to?

That would be the point, Aaron. It doesn't matter what the context is; 
the term is used all the time, in all sorts of contexts. Yet I don't 
recall ever seeing it defined. It has become in my mind a stupid 
buzz-word that means almost anything the write wants. Is a flat desert 
clean? Are snow-capped mountains clean? How about the wind-swept tundra 
of my home state of Alaska?

And what makes an interface "clean"? Or a particular application, or a 
piece of hardware, or... you get the idea.

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Ed Hurst
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