From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Creighton Message-Id: <200011232144.WAA16096@boris.cd.chalmers.se> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: lac@cd.chalmers.se Subject: [9fans] Simple Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 22:44:49 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 30a8792c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >Yeah, but doesn't the S in SMTP mean simple? > >-rob Next time you write a book, do you think you could devote a chapter on what is simple? It is badly not understood even by people who are trying to write good code. When I tell people, ok, now it works. Now go away and strip out things until this is the simplest and most elegant piece of code that you can write that works, people look at me as if I had sprouted an extra head or something.