> the majority of developers, who for some reason appear to love immense complexity and solving simple problems with complex solutions. This is so true. Of all

> the majority of developers, who for some reason appear to love immense complexity and solving simple problems with complex solutions. This is so true. Of all the projects which I have seen that failed, not a single one failed because its design was too simple. In fact, almost all of them failed because they were over engineered and because of that it was too hard to quickly adjust to changing requirements. And still people keep making the same mistake over and over again. It's not just related to design patterns, it's everywhere in the IT world. Take for instance protocols. SMTP: before the 80's there was a whole bunch of mail transfer protocols, many of them quite sophisticated. But which one won? The Simple mail transfer protocol. Or HTML, which was derived from SGML, a more complicated and much more generic protocol. The simple protocol won again. Or XML (derived from the more generic SGML), which is now being replaced by the even more simple JSON. The list goes on.