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commit 3088bf1ac73e0f849433fe8f9c632eecc04781ac
parent d896a681dde7c1dbf684ac70071828a589a7557e
Author: viznut_web <viznut_web@web>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:31:29 +0200

mentioned in 3 different places, so new page for this

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diff --git a/Wirth__39__s_law.mdwn b/Wirth__39__s_law.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +**Wirth's law** is [[Niklaus Wirth]]'s variant of the [[Jevons paradox]]: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is getting faster. + +In future scenarios will hardware stops getting faster and may actually start getting smaller and simpler, we may envision an inversion of Wirth's law: software will be getting better more rapidly than hardware will be getting smaller.