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Though the cost of computer hardware—the silicon chips containing the thousands of transistors that form the instruction set and memories—has shown a consistent trend downward in cost over the years, the cost of software has not followed suit. The high cost of software is due largely (and paradoxically) to the ease and flexibility with which it can be shaped. The ease with which software can be created and changed can also lead to unworkably complex systems.
“For ’tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar.” — Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Darnell, P.A., Margolis, P.E. (1988). Software Engineering. In: Software Engineering in C. Springer Books on Professional Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0308-4_12
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