{"id":725,"date":"2006-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/03\/07\/663\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T23:00:00","slug":"663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/03\/07\/663\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Cagle &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingxml.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/thoughts_on_com.html#more\" title=\"Understanding XML: Thoughts on Complexity\">Thoughts on Complexity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Over the years, I&#8217;ve noticed that in programming, as in other systems, there seems to be a fairly invariant rule out there: <em>You can never eliminate complexity from a system, you can only move it from place to place.<\/em> or, put another way, <em>In any program, someone will have to deal with the mess when it hits the fan.<\/em> This is part of the reason why I have become convinced that the profession of programmer will always be needed.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Cagle &#8211; Thoughts on Complexity: &#8222;Over the years, I&#8217;ve noticed that in programming, as in other systems, there seems to be a fairly invariant rule out there: You can never eliminate complexity from a system, you can only move it from place to place. or, put another way, In any program, someone will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}