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Yeah, like when Blow claimed he could replace PowerPoint in a weekend and ended up implementing a presentation software that had about 2% of what PowerPoint offers.

Now there's an argument to be made that many don't need the remaining ones but to claim that you 'replaced PowerPoint' for anyone but yourself is ridiculous.

They're good at demos, I give them that.



There's a classic saying along those lines, "everyone is only using 5% of Word. The tricky part is that everyone is using a different 5%"


C++ is the same way and is why while everyone hates 95% of it, no one can agree on a strictly superior language.


Originated (or maybe just popularized) by Joel Spolsky, I think?




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