A Plea for Lean Software

Wirth, N. (1995). A Plea for Lean Software. Computer, 28(2), 64-68.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1995

DOI

10.1109/2.348001

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/2.348001

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economics_finance

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Primes

• Parkinson's Law
  • In software resource consumption, the observation that software grows slower as fast as hardware grows faster is a Parkinson-form claim: given more memory and cycles, software finds ways to consume them.

    This sourceArticulates the software-bloat observation that programs expand to consume the memory and cycles that faster hardware provides ("Wirth's Law").

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