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The Cost of Abstraction: Every Convenience Moves Complexity Somewhere

Abstraction makes software easier to use by hiding detail, but the hidden detail does not vanish; its cost moves into libraries, runtimes, compilers, interfaces, debugging, or maintenance.

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Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, and the Limits of Adding More Programmers

Fred Brooks turned the difficult IBM OS/360 experience into a theory of software project management centered on communication, conceptual integrity and the limits of treating people as interchangeable units of effort.

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