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diff --git a/Wirth__39__s_law.mdwn b/Wirth__39__s_law.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ **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. +Wirth presented this idea in 1995 in an article as a means to justify the need for "lean software", something like Wirth's own [[Oberon]] system. + +For future scenarios where 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.