"With Project Oberon we have demonstrated that flexible and powerful systems can be built with substantially fewer resources in less time than usual. The plague of software explosion is not a "law of nature."
What then, in the software world, is a "law of nature", and how might we discover such a law/s by examining evidence, such as, the evidence deposited over the last 25 years of software proliferation?
Might we examine source code, or executable code?
Or number of users?
Or revenue from sales?
Or aesthetic qualities of the source code, such as structure, legibility, or maintainability, or portability; or qualities of the executable code, such as size, performance, or intuitiveness of the UI?
What then, in the software world, is a "law of nature", and how might we discover such a law/s by examining evidence, such as, the evidence deposited over the last 25 years of software proliferation?
Might we examine source code, or executable code?
Or number of users?
Or revenue from sales?
Or aesthetic qualities of the source code, such as structure, legibility, or maintainability, or portability; or qualities of the executable code, such as size, performance, or intuitiveness of the UI?