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Complexity as Root Cause
- Complexity is the root cause of software project failures, including unreliability, late delivery, and security issues.
- Understanding a system is crucial for success, but complexity hinders this understanding.
Complexity Breakdown
- State, code volume, and flow of control are significant contributors to complexity.
- The presence of many possible states makes systems difficult to analyze and test.
Complexity of Control
- Control, or the order of operations, adds complexity when implicit in a language.
- Programmers must determine if specified ordering is significant, increasing cognitive load.