Software quote OTD

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Unfortunately that tends to be true. I once worked with a software 
"engineer" who always found the most complicated way to solve a simple 
problem. He'd come up with some 100+ lines of code for an algorythm that 
could be solved with 3 easy lines of C code. He could never visualize and 
simplify. 
The whole underlying philosophy of Unix and C is simplicity and terseness. 
Unix commands are usually very simple (and terse). You want to make a 
command more complex, use pipes and multiple commands. 
 
On 12 Aug 2002 at 15:58, David Kramer wrote:

> 'There are some computer scientists who seem to believe that the only way
> to solve complicated problems is to create software of epic proportions
<snip>
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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