At one time or another I signed up for a free subscription to Visual Studio Magazine, probably because it is free, and occasionaly I’ll read an article if it catches my eye. Today I happened across an article titled “The Simplicity Manifesto” and thought it could be interesting, and that it was.
I didn’t get far into the article before I ran across this statement.
Outside of Apple Inc., simplicity and elegance don’t carry much weight in the development community.
Obviously this guy must have been hiding under a rock for the last decade and never heard of Agile development, or read anything by guys like Bob Martin, Kent Beck, or Martin Fowler. I know in my own day to day development I try to strive for simplicity and elegance, as do many of the developers I’ve worked with in the past, even the ones who don’t practice some sort of Agile methodology.
