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Economy of Software Maintenance

Friday, December 5, 2008

Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence. —Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., “The Mythical Man-Month” In the old model, large companies built large pieces of software and had to support nearly every user and their myriad edge cases and behaviors. This [...]

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