Useful principle. But… (sorry to make a simple phrase more complex) the notion just scratches the surface of complexity management.
I appreciate “Philosophy of Software Design” by Ousterhout. I recently read that while rebuilding a text editor. Mind blowing experience. There is a lot of opportunity to more tightly encapsulate logic, to more clearly abstract a system, to keep a system simple yet powerful and extensible. I believe I became twice as good of a developer just by reading a chapter a day and sticking with the workflow.
I appreciate “Philosophy of Software Design” by Ousterhout. I recently read that while rebuilding a text editor. Mind blowing experience. There is a lot of opportunity to more tightly encapsulate logic, to more clearly abstract a system, to keep a system simple yet powerful and extensible. I believe I became twice as good of a developer just by reading a chapter a day and sticking with the workflow.