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• Brooks's Law prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting development work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• econd-system effect n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an elephantine feature-laden monstrosity....
• optimism: n. What a programmer is full of after fixing the last bug and just before actually discovering the *next* last bug.
  Fred Brooks's book "The Mythical Man-Month" (See "Brooks's Law") contains the following paragraph that describes this extremely well...
• optimism n. What a programmer is full of after fixing the last bug and before discovering the next last bug.
  Fred Brooks's book "The Mythical Man-Month" (See "Brooks's Law") contains the following paragraph that describes this extremely well...
• Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
  -- F. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse execute by two persons and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• Green Book: n. 1. One of the three standard {{PostScript}} reference
  PostScript Language Program Design", bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988...
• ap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program.
  In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program....