[Quote] Dan Palmer, 'What is Simplicity?'

We all want code (and systems) that are simple. Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure, distinguished simple from easy . The easiest thing is not necessarily the simplest. But the software engineer Dan Palmer takes this further, pointing out that there are multiple conceptions of simplicity, and they exist in tension with each other: But what is simplicity? Despite this near universal agreement that…