Silver Bullet, or "silver bullet" or "silver bullet", refers to bullets made of pure silver or silver plating. Influenced by the trend of European folklore and Gothic novels since the19th century, silver bullets are often portrayed as weapons with exorcism effect, which are special weapons to deal with supernatural monsters such as werewolves and vampires. Later, it was also compared to an extremely effective solution, as the agent of the killer, the strongest killing move, and the trump card.
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Later, silver bullets were often used as spokesmen for deadly weapons. It is compared to a very effective solution, as a killer's agent, the strongest killing action, trump card and so on.
Fred Brooks, the father of IBM mainframe, published a classic paper on software engineering in 1986, entitled "No Silver Bullets: the Essence and Subsidiary Work of Software Engineering". Among them, "silver bullet" refers to a technology or method that can increase the productivity of software engineering tenfold in ten years. This paper emphasizes that this "real silver bullet" does not exist because of the complexity of software.