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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by JohnFen on Monday March 11, 2019 @12:55PM (#19360526)
> Complexity is the enemy in software engineering

For decades, I've been saying this a bit differently: "Software engineering is primarily an exercise in complexity management".

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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by combatentropy on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:29PM (#19363509)
"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." --- Brian Kernighan, 1976
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