I thought of Brooks when I saw the title; as I mentioned in my other comment, I ...

_ooqq on Jan 31, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)

I thought of Brooks when I saw the title; as I mentioned in my other comment, I see a kind of amusing pendant to Conway's law here: a complex programming language will produce a complex codebase.