Brian Foote Quotes:
Life: b. December 29, 1948
Birthday: December 29
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.
topic: Simple, Survival, Fragility
