Why doesn’t Moore’s Law apply to software development? If it did, every 18 months or so applications would be twice as fast and/or be built in half the time. The reason Moore’s Law or any ordered progression of improvement doesn’t apply to software development is very few people are working on intellectually improving it and almost no one is applying the results of intellectual studies to it.
For instance, Steve McConnell’s Code Complete, Second Edition presents some very reasonable principles. But as I go through it now, I wonder if any manager has read it, and if so, why none of its ideas are being applied.
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