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'''Incidental complexity is not the same as accidental complexity!''' <br> | '''Incidental complexity is not the same as accidental complexity!''' <br> | ||
Incidental complexity is unnecessary but still may be partially fully intentional introduced. <br> | Incidental complexity is unnecessary but still may be partially fully intentional introduced. <br> | ||
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The lack of necessity of incidental complexity of the complexity may fall anywhere on the spectrum knowledge quadrant spectrum. <br> | The lack of necessity of incidental complexity of the complexity may fall anywhere on the spectrum knowledge quadrant spectrum. <br> | ||
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* known unknowns – This could be bad but it's hard to think about, so lets juts hope for the best. | * known unknowns – This could be bad but it's hard to think about, so lets juts hope for the best. | ||
* known knowns – Very consciously doing bad ugly horrible hacks. | * known knowns – Very consciously doing bad ugly horrible hacks. | ||
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| + | == Related == | ||
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| + | * [[Gaps in software]] | ||
| + | * [[The problem with current day programming and its causes]] | ||
| + | * [[General software issues]] | ||
| + | * [[Software]] | ||
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| + | == External links == | ||
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| + | '''Incidental complexity is not the same as accidental complexity!''' <br> | ||
| + | See: https://coder-mike.com/blog/2021/09/24/incidental-vs-accidental-complexity/ <br> | ||
=== Old crisis === | === Old crisis === | ||
Revision as of 14:34, 1 January 2023
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Contents
Main problems
Accelerating bit-rot from:
- dependency hell
- incidental complexity
- plumbing across gaps
- bad abstractions
Incidental complexity growing acceleratingly all the way to the point
where a rewrite from scratch is the only option. Just another form of bit-rot.
Plumbing: Lack of good abstractions over barriers in underlying hardware (including network barriers).
Bridging via plaintext without hard structural guarantees.
See Gaps in software.
Bad abstractions: The saying goes:
Ever problem in computer science can be solved with yet another layer of abstraction.
Except the problem of too many layers of abstraction.
Also there is a lack of languages that are conducive for
tools to easily trace across levels of abstraction.
Main cures
- provably guaranteed purity of code (purely functional languages aka denotative languages)
- super fine grained content addressed (fine grained per function / closure)
Incidental complexity vs accidental complexity
Incidental complexity is not the same as accidental complexity!
Incidental complexity is unnecessary but still may be partially fully intentional introduced.
The lack of necessity of incidental complexity of the complexity may fall anywhere on the spectrum knowledge quadrant spectrum.
Accidents:
- unknown unknowns – Not influencable fate.
- unknown knowns – Oops, I actually totally would have known that this decision is bad if I would have been more vigilant.
Conscious decisions:
- known unknowns – This could be bad but it's hard to think about, so lets juts hope for the best.
- known knowns – Very consciously doing bad ugly horrible hacks.
Related
- Gaps in software
- The problem with current day programming and its causes
- General software issues
- Software
External links
Incidental complexity is not the same as accidental complexity!
See: https://coder-mike.com/blog/2021/09/24/incidental-vs-accidental-complexity/
Old crisis
Software crisis ...
The Wikipedia article is mainly about the "old fist crisis" it seems.
A lot of new severe large scale problems/challenges have arisen since then.
