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From: D <nospam@example.net>
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Subject: Re: (Excessive?) Complexity
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 22:39:00 +0100
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 11:45:42 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> Simple is good! I struggle often to explain to young whipper snappers
>> the power of good enough. The power of good enough has won me a lot of
>> business throughout the years.
>
> I've worked with a couple of programmers who tried to anticipate future
> needs and developed complex code to handle those eventualities. 20 years
> later the eventualities never happened but the complexity is still there.
>
> It's one thing to anticipate future needs in your design and not to paint
> yourself into a corner and another to spend a lot of time doing stuff
> before it's necessary. Good enough is good enough.
>

This is the truth!