Out of the Tar PitOut of the Tar Pit Ben Moseley ben@moseley.name Peter Marks public@indigomail.net February 6, 2006 Abstract Complexity is the single major difficulty in the successful develop- ment of large-scale software systems. Following Brooks we distinguish accidental from essential difficulty, but disagree with his premise that most complexity remaining in contemporary systems is essential. We identify common
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