Re: Abominations of nature

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On 8/30/07, Thomas Breuel <tmbdev@gmail.com> wrote:
|> But don't discount an idea just because it's difficult to
> understand/implement (otherwise, we probably wouldn't have most modern
> programming languages in the first place).
>
> But I do, because the reason we're using Lua is that it's simple and small.
> The more complicated Lua becomes as a language, the less useful it becomes
> for us.

Precisely!  We all understand that difficult things often require
difficult solutions. But straightforward things should be easy.
Otherwise we are wasting brain cycles on overelaboration and
unnecessary complexity.

steve d.