Thomas Themel writes about Rube Goldberg contraptions and the fun of designing and building them. In short, a Rube Goldberg contraption is any exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. This made me think about applying this concept to software engineering. And what came to mind first? All that WS-stuff that is still going on like crazy. Finding other examples is left as an exercise to the reader. Building Rube Goldberg contraptions must indeed be fun.
Posted by guenter at May 15, 2006 08:58 AM