From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [TUHS] Charles Forsyth on putting Unix on a diet.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:39:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2FB588AE-7017-4DFE-AE6D-1FA3BB5C470F@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae850e26da050f28a43ba0f3793c93dc@quintile.net>
> On 28 Oct 2017, at 00:15, Steve Simon <steve at quintile.net> wrote:
>
> It was put to me that there is a big difference between
> complicated and complex.
>
> Complexity may be necessary to deal with difficult problems.
> But the solution, built on the complex framework should never
> be complicated.
This is half-way (and perhaps more than that) to what the 'worse is better' paper would call 'the MIT approach'. I think it's fairly obviously the right thing, and equally obviously almost never done.
--tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-27 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-27 10:36 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-27 13:03 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-27 13:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-10-27 21:51 ` Andy Kosela
2017-10-27 23:04 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-27 23:15 ` Steve Simon
2017-10-27 23:39 ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2017-10-28 2:00 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-28 2:34 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-28 2:42 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-28 6:38 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-27 21:43 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-28 13:11 Norman Wilson
2017-10-27 21:30 Norman Wilson
2017-10-27 22:49 ` Chris Torek
2017-10-26 14:57 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-26 22:07 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-25 2:51 Dan Cross
2017-10-25 3:14 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-26 17:27 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-26 22:12 ` George Michaelson
2017-10-27 3:49 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-10-27 6:55 ` arnold
2017-10-27 7:30 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-10-27 9:44 ` David Arnold
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