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The question is: is this thing inherently complex or is it more complicated than it needs to be? In software there are many things that are more complex than t
by adgasf 7y ago
The question is: is this thing inherently complex or is it more complicated than it needs to be?
In software there are many things that are more complex than they need to be.
- nivenhuh 7y agoSoftware development is an additive practice, where opinions and ideas are usually added to a big-ole-shipping-ball of software. I think this is where most complexity comes from. Sometimes it can be a subtractive practice, where a person can delete / simplify, but this happens much less than it should.
- utopian3 7y agoZawinski's Law > “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”