Subject: Re: [lisp] My comment at the mic during the WG meeting about evaluating/measuring complexity

From: [email-masked] (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:31:09 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Scott Brim <[email-masked]>

    > In particular I don't think lisp-ms adds particularly to the _overall_
    > system complexity

There is also the point that there is system _complexity_, and then there are
system _evolvability_, system _flexibility_, system _robustness_, etc. These
latter are both i) important, and ii) hard to measure, and increasing these
latter measures often involves some extra complexity.

LISP-MS is an excellent example of this; it insulates the xTRs from the
mapping system, so that if we change ALT, or replace it, we have to only
modify the MSs to do so, not all the xTRs.

	Noel