No Silver Bullet¶
Brooks, F. P. J. (1987). No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. Computer.
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Mechanisms¶
- Simplicity Constraint
- … strength is protecting a system's long-run governability: it stops the slow accretion of special cases that turns a legible design into unmaintainable sprawl, defending against what Fred Brooks called accidental complexity — the complexity we add ourselves, as opposed to the complexity the problem genuinely demands.
This sourceGrounds accidental complexity as implementation-created difficulty distinct from complexity inherent in the problem.
- … strength is protecting a system's long-run governability: it stops the slow accretion of special cases that turns a legible design into unmaintainable sprawl, defending against what Fred Brooks called accidental complexity — the complexity we add ourselves, as opposed to the complexity the problem genuinely demands.
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