> One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project. Duct

> One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project. Duct tape programmers tend to avoid C++, templates, multiple inheritance, multithreading, COM, CORBA, and a host of other technologies that are all totally reasonable, when you think long and hard about them, but are, honestly, just a little bit too hard for the human brain. Here we are 14 years latter still trying to figure out what simple actually means & is. Which is as it should be. The marketplace of ideas for good software has grow a lot more options & a lot more refined, but most of us chase an altogether remarkably similar (if not identical) cup. Values are more aligned than most realize or would acknowledge.