Simple Made Easy

Strange Loop 2011. Hickey pulls apart two words we usually treat as one.

• Simple means one fold: not interleaved with anything else. It’s objective.
• Easy means near at hand: familiar, already installed. It’s relative to you.

Picking easy over and over is how systems get complex. He calls the interleaving complecting.

Swaps he suggests

Complex	Simpler
State, objects	Values
Methods	Functions, namespaces
Syntax	Data
Imperative loops	Set functions
Actors	Queues
ORM	Declarative data manipulation