> > I was just listening to Brooks' talk at OOPSLA 2007 and in the Q&A part > > at the end he mentions a paper on increasing entropy in software > > systems. He mentions the authors' names but I can't quite make it out > > and Google hasn't been very helpful either. He says the paper “must > > be > > 30 years old” and it sounds like he says it's by Les Bellati and Manny > > Leimann (Lehmann?). > > Wikipedia's entry for "Software entropy" lists this: > > Lehman M.M. and Belady L. (1985). Program Evolution. Process of > Software Change. > > No link, though.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0124424406 Using the author names provided by Ketil, scholar.google.com also finds this: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/153/ibmsj1503E.pdf _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe