In article <b0189c04b5d9a25bd50d4ceacf479b79.squirrel at mail.5-cent.us>, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > John Hodrien wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 05:16 -0700, Craig White wrote: > >> > >>> Gmagic/Imagick are somewhat incapable of doing graphing at all. > >> > >> Have you ever really looked ? What about GmagickDraw::point and similar > >> items ? > > > > I think the risk of the KISS approach is that you tend to reimplement > > everything, because everything everyone else has done is overcomplicated. > > The "danger" of KISS approach? So, you endorse complex and complicated > schemes? And here I thought that the True Believers in OO asserted that > OOP was cleaner, simpler, and easier. As Einstein said once: "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." More to the point would be: "Judging something *solely* on its simplicity is an overly simplistic approach." -- Kiel Hodges. This appears to me to be the trap that Paul Always Learning has fallen into. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org