Simple Hickey
Rich is concerned, and rightly so, that we have a culture of complexity. That when programmers are given a task, they race ahead and write masses of tangled code, using “easy” frameworks and tools, without giving the problem due thought. That we confuse easiness, with simplicity. (e.g. Rails is easy, it is not simple.) His complaint about tests is that we used them to replace thought. That we feel good about ourselves because we’ve written tests, and yet we haven’t actually given the time to the problem that the problem deserves. We haven’t made the problem simple. We’ve just done what was easy.
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