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In 1986, Fred Brooks proposed in his paper "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" that software development difficulties are divided into essential complexity and accidental complexity, and predicted that no silver bullet would emerge within ten years to improve productivity tenfold
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UnverifiedBrooks divides software complexity into 'essential complexity' and 'accidental complexity' in 'The Mythical Man-Month.'74% similarUnverifiedBrooks将软件困难分为次要困难（语法、代码敲击、内存等）和本质困难（内在复杂度、一致性、可变性、不可见性）68% similarUnverifiedBrooks定律指出向一个已经延迟的软件项目中增加人手只会让它更加延迟，出自Frederick Brooks于1975年的著作《人月神话》66% similar
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