Morfik Blog » Web IDE http://blog.morfik.com News, stories, tips and tricks from the crew at Morfik Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:43:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Entropy in software systems – managing complexity http://blog.morfik.com/2010/02/01/web-software-complexity/ http://blog.morfik.com/2010/02/01/web-software-complexity/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:11:18 +0000 Siamack Yousofi http://blog.morfik.com/?p=368 In the science of thermodynamics, the concept of Entropy represents a “measure of disorder”. According to this concept “Systems evolve toward a state of maximum entropy”.

This notion has a parallel in software engineering, “Software systems evolve toward a state of maximum complexity”.

Desktop computing started in a simple way. The platform consisted of a simple processor, a simple single-tasking single-user operating system and a number of simple programming languages. As software applications evolved things became increasingly complex, slowing down the progress. So something had to be done.

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