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C.A.R. Hoare - The Emperor’s old clothes - Turing Award Lecture (1980)

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I gave desperate warnings against obscurity, the complexity, and
over-ambition of the new design, but my warnings went unheeded. I
conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design:
One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no
deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there
are no obvious deficiencies.

我认为只存在两种构建的方式: 一是让它尽可能简单, 简单到能明显看出没有缺陷. 一是让它尽可能复杂, 复杂到不存在明显的缺陷.