[OT] Why software ends up complex

[Kagamin]

On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 17:58:17 UTC, Robert M. Münch 
wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2020 at 16:21:59 CET, "Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote:
>
>> https://alexgaynor.net/2020/nov/30/why-software-ends-up-complex/
>
> I don't want to be too picky but there is a very important 
> difference between complexity and complication.
>
> You can't reduce complexity. If you need a switch with two 
> positions, you have complexity 2, with three positions 3, etc. 
> You can't get rid of it.

Once complexity is there, nothing can be done with it, so there's 
no problem to solve. But you can reduce complexity by not having 
the feature in the first place, that's the difficult part.