A Simple Design
Simplicity always wins, in my opinion. The following two quotes from Programming Pearls (book I'm reading now) need no further comment: they nail it.
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A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but wen there is no longer anything to take away.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
the French writer and aircraft designer (quoted in Programming Pearls)
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More programmers should judge their work by this criterion. Simple programs are usally more reliable, secure, robust and efficient than their complex cousins, and easier to build and maintain.
--Jon Bentley
in Programming Pearls
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