Fred Brook's "No Silver Bullet". I've found it very useful to reason in terms of accidental vs essential complexity and constantly asking myself: is this truly

Fred Brook's "No Silver Bullet". I've found it very useful to reason in terms of accidental vs essential complexity and constantly asking myself: is this truly hard or am I just making it hard by using the wrong tool/design/abstraction/architecture etc for the job. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszcah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBullet.html http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszcah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBu...