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Software engineering

the observation that software tends to become slower and larger more quickly than hardware becomes faster.

In software engineering, Wirth's law refers to the observation that software tends to become slower and larger more quickly than hardware becomes faster. This meaning comes from Wirth (1995) in Computer.[1]

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Wirth, N. (1995). A plea for lean software. Computer, 28(2), 64-68. https://doi.org/10.1109/2.348001

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