the_trav (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} the_trav) wrote,@ 2009-04-15 17:21:00 |
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redundancy != duplication
A common misunderstanding in software engineering.
If you CAN do the same thing 2 different ways, then you've got redundancy, if one way is disabled, you can still get by using the other way.
If you HAVE to do the same thing 2 different ways then you don't have redundancy, you've just got a cluster fuck where everything takes twice as long as it has to and breaks twice as often as it should.
A common misunderstanding in software engineering.
If you CAN do the same thing 2 different ways, then you've got redundancy, if one way is disabled, you can still get by using the other way.
If you HAVE to do the same thing 2 different ways then you don't have redundancy, you've just got a cluster fuck where everything takes twice as long as it has to and breaks twice as often as it should.
