Hazel Weakly :verified_trans: on Nostr: Since I'm on the topic of simplicity and essential complexity lately... What are your ...

Since I'm on the topic of simplicity and essential complexity lately... What are your favorite demonstrations of someone showing just how vastly simple a problem can be made vs how it was attempted previously?

One of my favorites is this programming pearls where Doug McIlroy "reviews" Donald Knuth's code and submits his own version as a rebuttal (a one line shell script vs a literate multi page bespoke program)

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/BentleyEtAl86.pdf