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Wanted: Software developers for long-term, large-scale enterprise application project. Complex solutions to complex problems. Ability to justify largely redundant framework development to senior management a must.
Why is it that when left to their own devices, and given more than one way to implement something, developers we will almost certainly undertake the most complicated?
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An interesting question is posed by Simon (in trackback).
It is also true for many other professions.
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'Cause developers, by and large, are people who enjoy hard intellectual challenges. And, left to their own devices, they tend to talk themselves into needing complexity, partly out of a desire to have a hard intellectual challenge.
The trick is to convince them that coming up with a clean simple solution is intellectually harder than coming up with a complicated beast.
Posted by: Robert Watkins | November 2, 2004 03:17 PM