Re: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.

["Shawn T. Amundson" <amundson CompleteIS com>]

On 13 Feb 1998, Russell Nelson wrote:

> But the first paragraph of the guidelines says:
> 
>   o All functions of the application should be available through the
>     default user interface.
> 
> I can't set the ping speed inside your program.
> 

This rule is absurd.

Applications should be written in such a way as to provide an
easy to use interface to the user.  This means striking a median
between power and flexability.  It does not mean bloating a
traceroute GUI to the point of user confusion.

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