Good engineering isn't about demonstrating intelligence through complexity.
The real skill is understanding a problem well enough to make the solution simpler. KISS.
Niklaus Wirth was writing about this over 30 years ago:
https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
Looking at today's software, what projects do you think have become unnecessarily complex?
systemd comes to mind for me. What else?
#linux #kiss #unix
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