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> There is an axiom that software gets bigger, for no particularly good reason, for at least 40 years. Sounds like a computer variant of Parkinson's law: "Work
by majewsky 8y ago
> There is an axiom that software gets bigger, for no particularly good reason, for at least 40 years.
Sounds like a computer variant of Parkinson's law: "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."
- mmt 8y agoClose, but not quite, since what's available (space in the specific example) isn't being filled. Alternatively, with the complaint that desktop software feels more sluggish on a modern computer than contemporaneous software did on much older hardware suggests that something is even being overfilled. My intuition says there's a different phenomenon of psychology at work here.