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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:
Tony Hoare passed away.
This quote has stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C.%5FA.%5FR.%5FHoare#The%5FEmperor's%5FOld%5FClothes