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Andrew Plato wrote:No. I mean simplification. Anytime you boil something down,
it loses
> Thus, the real problem is simplification for the mere act of
> simplification. If you're in a situation of ignorance, its best to stay
> complex and a little awkward (but correct) then to attempt simplification
> and perhaps lose a critical concept. The act of simplification will have
> greater detrimental effects if you don't comprehend what you're
> simplifying.
I guess that I was taking for granted that nobody would attempt the
simplification without having the knowledge to do it properly. A rash
assumption, now that I think of it.
For me, the effort to understand what I'm writing about is at least half the
time of producing the document. In fact, if I have trouble finding the right
way to simplify the concepts (or, to put it another way, the degree of
complexity to put into the manual) then I know that I'm still too ignorant to
be writing.
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