Re: Just one more anecdote
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:55:00 GMT
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"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> dawn wrote:
> >
> > You are using "the simplest model is the best model" and I don't buy
> > it, although I don't dismiss it as useless.
>
> I just have to pop in here and say that out of all the design
> principles
> I've ever picked up or articulated myself, I put Simplicity as the
> most important. A good design is one that meets all the requirements,
> a better design is one that meets all the requirements as is but will
> not if you remove even one design element. The best design is the
> smallest
> design.
>
> I don't know whether this is a good principle for cosmological
> contemplations, but it's sure a good one for designing software.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler than
that."
-- Albert Einstein --
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