Editing Second-system effect

{{Short description|Project management phenomenon}}
The '''second-system effect''' or '''second-system syndrome''' is the tendency of small, [[elegant]], and successful systems to be succeeded by [[overengineering|over-engineered]], [[Software bloat|bloated]] systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html |title=Second-system effect |last1=Raymond |first1=Eric |author1-link=Eric S. Raymond |work=The Jargon File |access-date=June 24, 2013}}</ref>

The phrase was first used by [[Fred Brooks]] in his book ''[[The Mythical Man-Month]]'', first published in 1975. It described the jump from a set of simple operating systems on the [[IBM 700/7000 series]] to [[OS/360]] on the 360 series,<ref name="FOLDOC">{{FOLDOC|Second-system+effect}}</ref> which happened in 1964.<ref name="mythical">{{cite book |last1=Brooks |first1=Frederick P. Jr. |author1-link=Fred Brooks |year=1975 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/mythicalmanmonth00broo/page/53 |chapter=The Second-System Effect |title=The Mythical Man-Month: essays on software engineering |pages=53–58 |publisher=Addison Wesley Longman |isbn=0-201-00650-2}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Engineering}}
* [[Anti-pattern]]
* [[Feature creep]]
* [[Inner-platform effect]]
* [[Osborne effect]]
* [[Sophomore slump]]
* [[Unix philosophy]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web |title=Things You Should Never Do, Part I |last1=Spolsky |first1=Joel |author1-link=Joel Spolsky |date=April 6, 2000 |url=https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ |website=Joel on Software |access-date=October 15, 2021}}
* {{cite web |title=Notes on Haskell |date=August 21, 2007 |last1=Turoff |first1=Adam |url=https://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/08/rewriting-software.html |access-date=October 15, 2021}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.neilgunton.com/doc/?o=1mr&doc_id=8583 |title=Rewrites Considered Harmful? |last1=Gunton |first1=Neil |date=July 20, 2008 |access-date=October 15, 2021}}
* {{cite web |url=http://chadfowler.com/2006/12/27/the-big-rewrite.html |title=The Big Rewrite |last1=Fowler |first1=Chad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208161441/http://chadfowler.com/2006/12/27/the-big-rewrite.html |archive-date=December 8, 2016}}

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