From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] code complexity
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:42:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202050941120.8565-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C600AD6.8ABA5729@strakt.com>
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Boyd Roberts wrote:
> Russ Cox wrote:
> > As for why, there certainly exists a small class of programmers
> > that actively believes writing complex programs is
> > just macho.
>
> Bad programmers build complex stuff because they can and they get
> away with it most of the time, until it all comes crashing down.
or they just start from a design point that seems simple, and they don't
know enough to know that because they picked the wrong starting point it's
going to grow into a large complicated ugly ball of tar. Like Linux.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-05 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-05 16:34 Russ Cox
2002-02-05 16:39 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-05 16:42 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2002-02-05 17:20 ` david presotto
2002-02-05 23:06 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-02-05 20:24 ` philw
2002-02-06 1:01 ` ozan s yigit
2002-02-05 22:28 ` Dan Cross
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-06 0:10 [9fans] XP (was: code complexity) geoff
2002-02-06 0:29 ` [9fans] code complexity George Michaelson
2002-02-06 10:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-06 20:49 ` Andrew Simmons
2002-02-05 16:41 Russ Cox
2002-02-05 14:24 Richard Uhtenwoldt
2002-02-05 14:47 ` Matt H
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