Software Design with John Ousterhout
Legacy Code Rocks
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How to Quantify Complexity
I have not found an objective mathematical way of describing complexity that I think really captures the essence of complexity. So I tend to think of it in a much more qualitative, intuitive level where complexity is anything that makes it hard to work in a code base. And so in the software design book, I break it down into, I try to characterize this, three things. The first source of complexity is that you have to write additional code that to make a change in one place, I also have to make a changes in 10 other places. That's the amplification of the code you have to writing.
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