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draygonia | on: Tony Hoare has died
Reminds me of this quote... “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.”
dang | parent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law

The book is well worth reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948767

andyjohnson0 | root | parent | next
Seconded.

Someone once described Systemantics as the book that systwm designers read under the covers at night with a torch.

dang | root | parent
or should do!
ontouchstart | root | parent
Reading it now on Kindle Scribe without the help of AI ;-).

When I am done, I might simply replace SOUL.md with it and move on.

toomuchtodo | root | parent
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4904457M/Systemantics

(Systemantics is available for borrowing, Systems Bible is not yet, a copy has been sent for digitizing)