I'm covered in software engineering books at the moment writing up
conference stuff and I happened to crack open a copy of The Mythical
Man-Month and felt I should remind everyone about the...
-- *** SECOND SYSTEM EFFECT *** --
which I'm sure we all know about but sometimes
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:09PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all
the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first
one. The result ... is a 'big pile'.
-- Fred Brooks Jr, The
... at http://archive.develooper.com/?M=D should now be updating
again. :-)
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