Wirth's law

English

Etymology

Named after computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software".

Proper noun

Wirth's law

  1. (computer science) The observation that, over time, software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.
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