minimal



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The architecture of a computer system we define as the <strong>minimal</strong> set of properties that determine what programs will run and what results they will produce.
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Fred Brooks quoted in a <a href="http://tesugen.com/archives/04/08/brooks-architecture-2">recent entry by Peter</a>.

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Appreciation for a thing because of its closeness to the Platonic form of such a thing, its <strong>minimal</strong> distance from the perfect execution, is, I think, possibly *the* thing that makes you a hacker rather than a programmer.
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Discussing beauty with <a href="http://kryogenix.org/">Stuart</a> on the <a href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/">Wolves LUG mailing list</a>.

Just to let you know that I've not forgotten either of you, the promised comments are on the way. Honest.

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