Summary
Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose simple first, then easy, if it is also simple.
This shows the classic problem with valuing writing code fast, with no regard to the 80% of the time that will be needed to maintain the code. Ignoring this leads to legacy code, periodic full rewrites of a codebase, and continually rewriting and debugging the same algorithms.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy This is a good version of his talk.
Included here is a YouTube version of his talk. This one isn’t as good, because the slides are small. I also think the other version (above) was a better presentation.
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