"Rick Fochtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------<snip>--------------------------- > > Complexity is far too often used as an excuse for incompetence or > laziness; not always or even most of the time, but still far too often. > You don't let a carpenter into your house if he doesn't know how to use > his tools, do you????
The human mind has a limited capacity for organizing information into something meaningful. It would be interesting to see a graph showing the percentage of people able to properly handle various levels of complexity, and I suspect that as the complexity increases the dropoff would become more and more dramatic vs. something more linear. Therefore, rather than an excuse, concern about complexity would seem to be a very real one. Were the carpenter's tools to be come so complex that only the most talented of people could use them, carpentry would likely become so expensive as to eventually become a lost art, or at best an extremely arcane one. Do you disagree? Regards, Dean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
