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Against Essential and Accidental Complexity
In the classic 1986 essay, No Silver Bullet , Fred Brooks argued that there is, in some sense, not that much that can be done to improve programmer productivity. His line of reasoning is that programming tasks contain a core of essential/conceptual 1 complexity that's fundamentally not amenable to attack by any…
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- HN comments
- 102
- Submissions
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- 5 commenters
Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2020
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2020 | Against Essential and Accidental Complexity by weinzierl | 246 | 102 |
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