The MIT Approach
Gabriel contrasted his philosophy with what he called the "MIT approach" (also known as "the Right Thing"), which he described as follows. Contrasts are in bold:
- Simplicity
- The design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the interface to be simple than the implementation.
- Correctness
- The design must be correct in all observable aspects. Incorrectness is simply not allowed.
- Consistency
- The design must be consistent. A design is allowed to be slightly less simple and less complete to avoid inconsistency. Consistency is as important as correctness.
- Completeness
- The design must cover as many important situations as is practical. All reasonably expected cases must be covered. Simplicity is not allowed to overly reduce completeness.
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