From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] code complexity
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Date: Tue,  5 Feb 2002 09:42:09 -0700
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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