Re: Variable comparisons

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

Wietse Venema wrote:

> I translate that as: try to build complex systems from simpler
> ones.  The hard part is to define the building blocks that make
> this simplification possible. Unfortunately, this composition and
> decomposition game helps only until the real world requirements
> change to the point that they can no longer be accomodated.

Unfortunately, to actually reduce complexity, you need _independent_
building blocks, and I can't think of too many truly independent ones.
Surprising interactions are always possible (someone has called
essentially the same problem "leaky abstractions").