Editing Software crisis (section)

{{Short description|Term in early computing history}}
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'''Software crisis''' is a term used in the early days of [[computing science]] for the difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time. The software crisis was due to the rapid increases in computer power and the [[Programming complexity|complexity]] of the problems that could be tackled. With the increase in the complexity of the software, many software problems arose because existing methods were inadequate.