Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
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Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
Why do large systems disintegrate? The process seems to occur in three steps, the first two of which are controllable and the third of which is a direct result of our homomorphism. First, the realization by the initial designers that the system will be large, together with certain pressures in their organization, make irresistible the temptation to
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when you get software right, something magical happens: You don’t need hordes of programmers to keep it working. You don’t need massive requirements documents and huge issue tracking systems.
Robert C. Martin • Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)
Basic structures cannot be composed into larger structures unless they themselves are internally consistent, and so the creation of software, just like any artifact of language, is naturally incremental.Software is a very verbose, very precise incantation of how an information system ought to behave.