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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:20:35 +0100
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Boyd wrote:
> i think you miss my point.

Not really. Just enjoying the associations.

> simple stuff works.  complex
> stuff doesn't and if it does it's only because there's
> an army out there to nurse it along.

can't argue with that.

> i was trying to express my distaste for people who design things
> that are insanely complex and step back and think:
>
>    gee, i'm clever to have build this incredibly complex thing

that's fair enough, although i don't think that people try to
make things complex for the sake of it; i just think they don't try
hard enough to make it simple. part of that is lack of 20-20 foresight,
as mentioned before, but i suspect that most of it is lack of suitable
education.

there should be a course, duh 101.

steve