[CS-FSLUG] Random comment on comment

[Don Parris]

I would say a "clean" interface is one that's uncluttered and looks
nice.  Of course, "pretty", "nice", "handsome", "charming", and
similar adjectives might better suit the situation.  Of course, I'm
currently attempting a "clean" re-installation of SUSE on one box -
that is, devoid of any traces of a previous install.  This is
important because I believe my last re-installation was contaminated
or tainted by the ghost of the first installation.  Are you following
this, so far? :)


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:26:23 -0500, Aaron Patrick Lehmann
<lehmanap at cs.purdue.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:21:06PM -0500, Ed Hurst wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sort of like the various smells of code in the Refactoring book...  I'm not
> quite sure what it is that makes code smelly, but some code is definitely
> smelly.
> 
> Aaron Lehmann
> 
> 
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