From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:39:20 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Charles Forsyth on putting Unix on a diet. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2FB588AE-7017-4DFE-AE6D-1FA3BB5C470F@tfeb.org> > On 28 Oct 2017, at 00:15, Steve Simon 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