Fundamental Truths

nicholas on 2006-11-15T23:13:14

I feel that RFC 1925 is under-rated. In particular the axioms given in sections 2.1 and 2.8: It Has To Work. and It is more complicated than you think..

Sadly I see too much of corollary 6a - It is always possible to add another level of indirection.. Please, just K.I.S.S.

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Indirection is not abstraction

Tony Finch on 2006-11-16T00:37:42

http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/indirection_is_not_abstraction.html

some win32 perl distros

jhi on 2006-11-16T03:42:10

It says "possible". It doesn't use any of the words "useful", "practical", "feasible", "necessary", "beneficial", "desireable", and so forth.

Re:some win32 perl distros

jhi on 2006-11-17T00:45:32

Oh, bother, I seem to have picked an old subject line, dangers of web browsers remembering too much...

11a

chrimble on 2006-11-16T11:47:08

Surely, it's corollary 11a you see too much of? :-)