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A plea for lean software

1995; IEEE Computer Society; Volume: 28; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/2.348001

1558-0814

Niklaus Wirth,

Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

Software's girth has surpassed its functionality, largely because hardware advances make this possible. The way to streamline software lies in disciplined methodologies and a return to the essentials. The paper discusses some causes of "fat software" and considers the Oberon system whose primary goal was to show that software can be developed with a fraction of the memory capacity and processor power usually required, without sacrificing flexibility, functionality, or user convenience. >