Re: [BLACKBOX] Niklaus Wirth: Geek of the Week

From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:12:33 -0500

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        "And as long as companies secretly cherish complexity as an effective protection against being copied, there is little hope for dramatic improvements of the state of the art."

        I've never seen that expressed in public, but I agree, it's no accident that we are drowning in complexity.


        "Besides all the good things, the open source movement ignores and actually hinders the perception of one of the most important ideas in designing complex systems, namely their partitioning in modules, and their formation as an orderly hierarchy of modules.... And if the complete source is available anyhow, so the story goes, who needs it?"

        Ouch.

Rex Couture

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