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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:56:59 +0100 |
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> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 20:06:15 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> > Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. |
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>> That's a version of Occam's Razor, isn't it? Otherwise known as "Do |
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>> not complicate beyond necessity." |
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> It's a tautology. |
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> You cannot make something any simpler than the simplest you can |
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> possibly make it, so the last "but no simpler" is redundant |
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The "but no simpler" is there as a reminder that it's possible to over-simplify. |
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:wq |