Summary: Software tends to grow haphazardly, and often instead of being internally organized in any fashion, more code is just piled on. As code bases grow, the

Summary: Software tends to grow haphazardly, and often instead of being internally organized in any fashion, more code is just piled on. As code bases grow, they become very hard to manage, and "smaller and nimbler" competition can step in. If this is a secret, it's a pretty open one. taps copy of Thinking Forth, c. 1984.