begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 03:17:05PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >When you have to grok the entire problem in order to understand, you've > >failed to properly decompose the problem. > > I agree 99.9%. > > However, there do exist things which are just *hard*.
Well, yes, but that doesn't make for nearly so nice of an aphorism. :) Plus, if you added the exception, people who don't like to decompose a problem (because they lack that skill, or they're lazy, or they're so smart they don't *have* to) will claim that their case is one of the exception cases. Also, it (the aphorism) falls down in that eventually you have to /stop/ decomposing the problem and actually solve bits of it. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
