On 25 April 2012 21:57, Jon Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>   simplexity
>   ----------------------
>   http://www.artima.com/intv/simplexity.html
>
>      "Simplification" that makes something harder to understand.
>
>      Anders Hejlsberg:
>         When you take something incredibly complex and try to
>         wrap it in something simpler, you often just shroud the
>         complexity.  You don't actually design a truly simple
>         system. And in some ways you make it even more complex,
>         because now the user has to understand what was omitted
>         that they might sometimes need.  That's simplexity. So
>         to me, simplicity has to be true, in the sense that the
>         further down you go the simpler it gets.  It shouldn't
>         get more complicated as you delve down."


Hilarious. Prompts me to be a co-conspirator and propose *complicity* - the
other side of the simplexity coin.

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