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> minimal, purposeful, clean, legible, durable, maintainable, modular

Yeah, the modernist ethos. Today those would sound featureless, single-minded, featureless (yea, again), oversimplified, lasting beyond its usefulness, unoptimised, repetitive.

As any engineer, I also like the modernist thinking better, but it's not realistic, life is messy and complicated.




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