Re: The impact of data format selection on application development

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 8:52 AM Stephen D Green <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Indeed. If you think about it, little/simple reduces the options for
> variation - fewer dimensions of variation. Allowing scalable variation
> by necessity adds complexity.
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>

Enterprise systems and information exchange standards are typically
non-trivial enough to need that variation.

The "too simple" data model has the same consequence as the  "too simple"
programming language - alot more code gets written.
If you take a system naturally suited to OO modelling and decide to write
it in C instead of C++ because C is "simpler" it's soon becomes apparent
that you will be writing alot more code.

People kid themselves (and others) that this doesn't apply in the data
modelling scenario because they get hoodwinked by what seems to be an
upfront economy that lets them drive straight into coding. The reality is
it's a lot more coding.