Tony comments on software productivity.

If Capers Jones discovered in 1978 that productivity rates decline as the size of the program increases why have we not learnt by now how to make programs smaller? Maybe it’s because some programs are just large by nature and there is no way to break them into a set of smaller problems – I don’t really believe that though. Maybe it’s because programmers love to write code – it is what we are paid for after all. Maybe it’s because we don’t pay any attention to people like Capers Jones either because we have never heard of them or somehow we believe that our situations are unique.

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