28 Oct
2017
28 Oct
'17
5:39 a.m.
On 28 Oct 2017, at 00:15, Steve Simon
<steve(a)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