Dan Luu • 12/29/2020

Against essential and accidental complexity

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This article analyzes and refutes Fred Brooks' 1986 argument that 'essential complexity' in programming limits productivity gains to a factor of two. The author contends that Brooks' reasoning is flawed, as it fails to anticipate future innovations like scripting languages, garbage collection, fuzzers, and static analysis tools, which have since dramatically improved productivity.

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