3 Tackling Complexity
Try to solve the following simple puzzle by listening to your intuition; don’t try to solve it with mathematics or calculation.
A baseball bat and ball costs $1.10. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Take note of your immediate response.
This seems like an easy question. Since this is supposed to be a book about engineering, an intellectually demanding discipline, you probably suspect a trap.
We’ll return to the bat and ball shortly.
This chapter takes a step back and attempts to answer a fundamental question: Why is software development so difficult?
The answer that it proposes is ...
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