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Re:Complexity is the enemy by sanxiyn on Sunday April 24, 2011 @12:56AM (#2478312)
See also http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=422

... That experience taught me a lot about what really matters in programming. It is not about solving puzzles and being the brightest kid in the class. It is about realizing that the complexity of software dwarfs even the most brilliant human; that cleverness cannot win.

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Re:Complexity is the enemy by Tommabeeng on Sunday April 24, 2011 @02:58PM (#2479395)
I like this. "The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention." Well said. I think we need to espouse a new software paradigm: DFS-oriented programming. (Dead F*ing Simple-oriented programming.)
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