When I complained about how ill-defined "simple" was, a lot of people pointed me to Hickey's "simple made easy". Here's a challenge about that: Provide code that is simple but not easy. Then provide code in the same language, doing the same thing, that is easy but not simple.
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Like, "we can only hope to make reliable those things we can understand". Sounds reasonable, how can you argue with that? But, in fact, this is quite common in engineering. A lot of engineering is making reliable things we don't understand!pic.twitter.com/lGzSb0m1bq
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When I worked on flash mem (2001), I read the literature on how it worked. At the time, the exact physical mechanism by which some things happened wasn't understood. There were theories, but multiple theories were consistent with what was observed. But we can make flash reliable!
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