XpCodingDependencies
Last edit December 11, 2001
[from
CoreXpDependencies
]
SimpleDesign
--->
OnceAndOnlyOnce
-- If you have simple, redundant code, you have simple, stupid code. See:
RedundancyIsInertia
. You could generalize this by saying that each of the
XpSimplicityRules
depends on the rules above it. Many people hear "
SimpleDesign
" and hear "Simple
Stupid" (see
SimpleStupidVsSimpleElegant
). The parts of
XpSimplicityRules
are each dependent on the parts it.
Maybe instead of
SimpleDesign
we should call it Parsimonious Design instead. The idea is we're trying to do more with less...