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Situation:
Robert L. Glass "Of Model Changeovers, Style, and Fatware"
So you think there's too much "fatware" in the software world? Software
packages that have far more features and capabilities than the average user
needs or wants? Well, I do. I could have gone on happily, using my ancient
WordStar word processor, for example, if the computer on which it ran
hadn't up and died on me.
Fighting fatware: today's big, bloated software means big problems. What can you do about it-now, and in the future
Ed Perratore, Tom Thompson, Jon Udell, Rich Malloy
Today's big, bloated applications software means big problems.
The paper first looks at the reasons for large software. They
include a vendor adding features to stay competitive, poor
software development management, increased use of high level
languages, utility programs like spelling checkers, and graphical
user interfaces.
Niklaus Wirth "A Plea for Lean Software"
Do increased performance and functionality keep pace with the increased
demand for resources? Mostly the answer is no. The author contends that
software's girth has surpassed its functionality, largely because hardware
advances make this possible.
Steve McConnell "Achieving Leaner Software"
Whether the software pudginess originates externally, from excess
features, or internally, from overly complex designs and
implementations, pudgy software takes more time to design, code,
and debug than simpler software. Cost per line of code and defect
rate per line of code increase as software size increases.
DEL 'FATWARE' Y LA CRISIS CRÓNICA DE LA PROGRAMACIÓN...
Hay malas lenguas que opinan que se trata de un acuerdo entre
compañías de Hardware y Software
con una doble intención: por un lado el facilitar a las
productoras de programas la elaboración de estos, ya que no
tienen que optimizarlos ni depurarlos apenas, y por otro el
conseguir que el usuario tenga que cambiar de equipo o aumentar
su capacidad antes.
Bill Joy "Why the future doesn't need us"
The 21st-century technologies - genetics, nanotechnology, and
robotics (GNR) - are so powerful that they can spawn whole new
classes of accidents and abuses. Most dangerously, for the first
time, these accidents and abuses are widely within the reach of
individuals or small groups. They will not require large
facilities or rare raw materials. Knowledge alone will enable the
use of them. Thus we have the possibility not just of weapons of
mass destruction but of knowledge-enabled mass destruction (KMD),
this destructiveness hugely amplified by the power of
self-replication.
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