The article on Wikipedia about Parkinson's law mentions Wirth's law. 

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On Dec 15, 2011, at 12:42 AM, frank <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/15/2011 08:02 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> Hypothesis: Mainstream software slows down at a rate slightly less than
>> mainstream hardware speeds up.
> 
> Hmmm, seems like a more optimistic Version of Wirth's law (yes, Niklaus):
> "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
> 
>  Frank
> 
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