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<blockquote data-quote="Ferrous" data-source="post: 5774481" data-attributes="member: 61796">As an aside, in computing or more generally in science, a theory is described as &quot;elegant&quot; if it is &quot;economic&quot; with it's number of postulates but you can describe a large amount of observed data etc. So the theory of Evolution is a very elegant theory.So having a small number of base classes that can be used to create a large number of character archetypes can be described as &quot;elegant&quot;. It has a specific meaning and not just &quot;the style of design I like&quot;. Apologies if this is understood by everyone. I am not trying to say that anyones opinion is wrong just wqnting to clean up the debate.As another aside, I have found that people tend to be either &quot;lumpers or splitters&quot; . Lumpers like me tend to be &quot;big pictures&quot; types who lump everything together and then describe the differences. Splitters tend to be &quot;detail orientated&quot; and catalogue differences. Both approaches are useful in science.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ferrous, post: 5774481, member: 61796"] As an aside, in computing or more generally in science, a theory is described as "elegant" if it is "economic" with it's number of postulates but you can describe a large amount of observed data etc. So the theory of Evolution is a very elegant theory. So having a small number of base classes that can be used to create a large number of character archetypes can be described as "elegant". It has a specific meaning and not just "the style of design I like". Apologies if this is understood by everyone. I am not trying to say that anyones opinion is wrong just wqnting to clean up the debate. As another aside, I have found that people tend to be either "lumpers or splitters" . Lumpers like me tend to be "big pictures" types who lump everything together and then describe the differences. Splitters tend to be "detail orientated" and catalogue differences. Both approaches are useful in science. [/QUOTE]

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