From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,f66d11aeda114c52 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f66d11aeda114c52 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Design By Contract Date: 1997/09/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 271165192 References: Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) wrote: >>In article nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) writes: >> >>> I know you'll probably disagree, (and this is getting into Matt >>> Heaney territory), but I believe simplicity is innately, >>> universally, and uniformly recognisable by everyone. ... > >Then how come not everyone in this thread seems to agree on what's >simpler than what? Exactly. Read my previous post about the difference between a neurophysiologist and a butcher: to the butcher, the brain is quite simple indeed! And that's precisely the issue. Complexity depends on things _and_ people, because everyone's interest is different. Read Dealing with Complexity, by Carson and Flood, for a good introduction to the concepts. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271