Complexity in software in general is an evil thing, to be feared and fought and avoided at all costs. Niklaus Wirth pointed this out over 30 years ago… https:

Complexity in software in general is an evil thing, to be feared and fought and avoided at all costs. Niklaus Wirth pointed this out over 30 years ago… https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/348001 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/348001 … and it has grown exponentially worse since. I think that the software world ought to fear and dread complexity, the same way that the Unix designers feared and dreaded verbosity. « Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river. » https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt We ought to be religiously obsessive about avoiding it. In the end, everyone would benefit thereby.