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by MilStdJunkie 1172 days ago
Doug says there's not a conservation of complexity, but I kind of disagree with that - the problem he was getting hung up on back in 2000 was that the original XML complexity was frickin' useless but the consultants and the capital were trying to keep it around anyway. If you don't know why a complex condition exists, you can't abstract the complexity away.