Steve Jobs knows a lot about effective design! He’s a minimalist and constantly reducing things to their simplest level. It’s not simplistic. It’s simplified. Steve is a systems designer. He simplifies complexity.
The databases I work with deal with structured data. But so much of what I consume online is totally unstructured. Most ironic.
Instantly digestible error messages are so important. Why do so many systems have such pathetic error handling routines? And sometimes, none at all?
If you want to make a Cobol system, write your system with flat files and use Cobol. Or C. The system will run much faster than using a database.