[CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7

Tony Mountifield tony at softins.co.uk
Thu Sep 15 14:30:59 UTC 2011


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
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