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Michael Kay: simple designs make easy things easier, difficultthings mor

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:36:18 +0000

Michael Kay wrote:

> I think they made it simple deliberately, 
> knowing full well that when you keep a 
> design simple, you make easy things easier, 
> and difficult things more difficult.

That is a fascinating statement.

I am very interested in seeing concrete examples of a simple design making difficult things more difficult.

Does anyone have examples of this please?

/Roger

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