On Dec 12, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:

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>> - my often repeated design philosophy
>> Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to be added
>> but when there is nothing left to take away
>> Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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> come on, this is NOT a design philosophy :)

Sure it is.  If you add the implied "While meeting the requirements of 
the system".  The smallest system that meets its requirements is a 
perfectly good design approach.  By placing a working system into the 
smallest set of components you are forced to high reuse, and often a 
high degree of elegance, and all lack of conceptual and physical 
redundancy.  It is not a design methodology.  It does not dictate how 
to get to a good design, but I think it will be better than most at 
identifying what is a good design.

Michael

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> else, what about this one:
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> Surrender yourself humbly;
> then you can be trusted to care for all things.
> Love the world as your own self;
> then you can truly care for all things
> (Tao te king)
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> ... old chinese design philosophy :)))
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> Stef
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