Re: DRY vs. KISS

On Thursday 12 Nov 2009 20:41:09 Omer Zak wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 19:24 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> [... an example was snipped ...]
> 
> > So the question to you is: do you think DRY and KISS can sometimes
> > contradict one another? If so, which one is more important, or that you
> > should just use your reason. I should also note that I've been feeling
> > that less expressive languages sometimes result in being unable to avoid
> > duplicate code or undesirable "patterns" in the code (in accordance to
> > DRY). Possibly the only family of languages that completely avoids
> > duplicate code is Lisp.
> 
> I think that more important than DRY, KISS or whatever is the principle
> of not overloading the memory of whomever is going to read the software.
> 
> You overload his memory if he has to look up elsewhere for definitions
> of variables, functions, closures or whatever constructs you are using.
> According to this criteria, LISP can be very bad.
> 

Now that I think of it, it's possible that not overloading memory is one 
aspect of KISS ("Keep is Simple and Stupid"). But I'm not sure of that.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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