An excerpt from Programming Perls:
A Simple Design : Antonie de Saint-Exupery,
the Fresh writer and aircraft designer, said that,
*"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection
not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away."*
More programmers should judge their work by this criteria.
Can any one elaborate this, please?
What does the author mean when he say "...TAKE AWAY"
the Take Away part means that the design can be considered simple if all that remains are essential components, if you take away anything, it won't work.