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software crisis

software crisis noun: the difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of problems.

Noun

software crisis

  1. (dated) The difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of problems.

Questions about software crisis

What does software crisis mean?
Software crisis means the difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of problems.
What part of speech is software crisis?
Software crisis is a noun.

Words near software crisis in the dictionary

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  2. software assurance
  3. software configuration management
  4. software container
  5. software containers
  6. software crisis
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  9. software deployment
  10. software deployments
  11. software developer

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