alt Hacker News"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, as Ovid says, is a "big pile."
- Fred Brooks, 'The Mythical Man Month' (1975)
"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, as Ovid says, is a "big pile."
- Fred Brooks, 'The Mythical Man Month' (1975)
Oh wow, it's from Mythical Man Month? I've been meaning to read that for years and still never have.