{"id":1267,"date":"2015-01-23T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T06:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2015-01-23T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T06:57:06","slug":"complex-good-complicated-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/complex-good-complicated-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex good &#8211; complicated bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Zen of Python we are taught that complex is better than complicated. Which is fair enough if we understand the terms as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt is ok if something is complex so long as it is not complicated.<\/p>\n<p>complex: composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite<\/p>\n<p>complicated: difficult to analyze or understand<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/codebetter.com\/drusellers\/2009\/09\/25\/complex-vs-complicated\/\" target=\"_blank\">Complex vs Complicated<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any decent web framework is going to be a bit complex becauise of all the moving parts it has to handle. But it should make sense and be logically structured enough to avoid being overly complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Zen of Python we are taught that complex is better than complicated. Which is fair enough if we understand the terms as follows: It is ok if something is complex so long as it is not complicated. complex: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/complex-good-complicated-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-python","category-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}