Possibly even better than
Software Creativity
(to which it borrows the conclusion of one of its
parts)! At least, offers a more fluid presentation, with corrections
and updates postponed to a separate part, and a summary in the form of
a list of statements.
Made of two famous former publications, "The Mythical Man-Month"
and "No Silver Bullet", and their updates.
Roughly, the message is that although it does not qualify as a
"silver-bullet" (one order of magnitude improvement over ten years),
incrementally grown object-orientation is the way to go.
A great deal of attention paid to "conceptual integrity".
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The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence.