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Second-system effect

The second-system effect or second-system syndrome is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.[1]

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, which happened in 1964.[2]

Anti-pattern

Feature creep

Inner-platform effect

Osborne effect

Sophomore slump

Unix philosophy

Examples in information technology: , Taligent, Workplace OS, Copland, Rhapsody

IPv6 deployment

Spolsky, Joel (April 6, 2000). . Joel on Software. Retrieved October 15, 2021.

"Things You Should Never Do, Part I"

Turoff, Adam (August 21, 2007). . Retrieved October 15, 2021.

"Notes on Haskell"

Gunton, Neil (July 20, 2008). . Retrieved October 15, 2021.

"Rewrites Considered Harmful?"

Chad Fowler. . Archived from the original on December 8, 2016.

"The Big Rewrite"