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.
