Meir Manny Lehman (January 24, 1925 to December 29, 2010) was a British software engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University, and from 1972 to 2002 was Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Imperial College London. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution.
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What do Lehman's laws of software evolution say?
Programs used in the real world must keep changing, and their complexity grows unless someone works to contain it.
Lehman's laws are observations about software that is used in the real world. The first, the law of continuing change, says that such a program must keep adapting as its environment changes, or it becomes progressively less applicable and useful. The second, the law of increasing complexity, says that without direct intervention and deliberate effort to manage it, the complexity of these systems keeps growing as they evolve.
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