DevDan Luuover 5 years ago
Against essential and accidental complexity
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Fred Brooks argued in No Silver Bullet that essential complexity limits programmer productivity gains. Brooks claimed at least half of programming complexity is essential, bounding all technological improvements to at most a factor of 2. Stating this bound correctly requires predicting future problems and resource use, which is impossible.
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