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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] openmp flag
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:42:11
Message-Id: CA+czFiBDEV9dqPrk2y4V11rRGORGupWhg=_gRtpyxgYjNAQ_KQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] openmp flag by Alan McKinnon
1 On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:56:59 +0100
3 > Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 20:06:15 Neil Bothwick wrote:
6 >>
7 >> > Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
8 >>
9 >> That's a version of Occam's Razor, isn't it? Otherwise known as "Do
10 >> not complicate beyond necessity."
11 >>
12 >
13 > It's a tautology.
14 >
15 > You cannot make something any simpler than the simplest you can
16 > possibly make it, so the last "but no simpler" is redundant
17
18 The "but no simpler" is there as a reminder that it's possible to over-simplify.
19
20 --
21 :wq