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since when does a concept need to be easy to explain for it to be great? Ever heard of general relativity or quantum physics?
by czzarr 15y ago
since when does a concept need to be easy to explain for it to be great? Ever heard of general relativity or quantum physics?
- ajross 15y agoThose are laws of nature, not design paradigms. They have different (almost opposite) metrics for "great". Relativity (both variants) and QCD are "great" precisely because they were discovered and characterized in spite of the fact that they are counterintuitive and difficult to visualize. Good software design, on the other hand, is all about human communication. And a design paradigm that can't be communicated easily has less value than one that does.