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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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Is Complexity Essential?

It is kind of hard to make sense of what he means by complexity here being essential, because like it's just like the algorithm question. And I think no, he doesn't mean this exact amount of complexity as an essential. He just means software will always be complex, right? Even descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away is its essence.

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