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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Engineering portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Anti-pattern/BSSJC6os">Anti-pattern</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Feature_creep/ke9rIVpE">Feature creep</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Inner-platform_effect/b2YGT12h">Inner-platform effect</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Osborne_effect/xTn8xCGQ">Osborne effect</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sophomore_slump/sHnzou6H">Sophomore slump</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Unix_philosophy/U2WTavT0">Unix philosophy</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Joel_Spolsky/VbsY6yMQ">Spolsky, Joel</a> (April 6, 2000). <a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/">"Things You Should Never Do, Part I"</a>. <i>Joel on Software</i>. Retrieved October 15, 2021.</li> <li>Turoff, Adam (August 21, 2007). <a href="https://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/08/rewriting-software.html">"Notes on Haskell"</a>. Retrieved October 15, 2021.</li> <li>Gunton, Neil (July 20, 2008). <a href="https://www.neilgunton.com/doc/?o=1mr&doc_id=8583">"Rewrites Considered Harmful?"</a>. Retrieved October 15, 2021.</li> <li>Fowler, Chad. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161208161441/http://chadfowler.com/2006/12/27/the-big-rewrite.html">"The Big Rewrite"</a>. Archived from <a href="http://chadfowler.com/2006/12/27/the-big-rewrite.html">the original</a> on December 8, 2016.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Raymond, Eric. "Second-system effect". The Jargon File. Retrieved June 24, 2013. <a href="/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond" target="_blank">/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>This article is based on material taken from Second-system+effect at the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. <a href="https://foldoc.org/Second-system+effect" target="_blank">https://foldoc.org/Second-system+effect</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Brooks, Frederick P. Jr. (1975). "The Second-System Effect". The Mythical Man-Month: essays on software engineering. Addison Wesley Longman. pp. 53–58. ISBN 0-201-00650-2. <a href="0-201-00650-2" target="_blank">0-201-00650-2</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>