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Re: how much complexity is unavoidable?

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• Subject: Re: how much complexity is unavoidable?
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 20 Nov 2002 17:01:31 +0000
• Cc: <michael.h.kay@n...>
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"Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...> writes:

> > But my puzzlement is not over *why did Apache* create a more 
> > complex product than you or James Clark did. It is over the 
> > fact that *it is
> > possible* to create a product that is every bit as functional 
> > yet not as complex.
> > 
> 
> This doesn't puzzle me. Work expands to fill the time available.

You don't suppose there are companies that still judge programmers'
productivity by LOC counts?

Ari.

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