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"The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one."
Brooks reasons that the combined experience of doing the first project well and the second project badly leads to better designs from then on.
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"The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one."
Brooks reasons that the combined experience of doing the first project well and the second project badly leads to better designs from then on.