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[NorthWesterner]

What ever happened to KISS?

Basically, stupid people.

Or, maybe better put, the assumption that people are stupid.

Once we got color on the monitor, that was the beginning of the end of KISS. More colors mean more complexity. And they mean programmers playing for the sake of playing, not for the sake of making things work better and more simply.

Then we got graphical interfaces, and that was the end of KISS. When all you have to do is put another cute (to you) little icon up on the screen to add a feature, that did it.

It's so far back I can't remember, but which was the last truly great version of WordPerfect -- 5.1?? GREAT word processor. Just took a trifle of time and attention to learn. But even that was too much for some people. So there went KISS.

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