Does size matter?
Joshua Lindsay, James Noble, Ewan D. Tempero · 2010
There is increasing evidence that many object-oriented software size metrics are characterised by scale-free, powerlaw distributions. This means programs will have arbitrarily large components, and the size of the largest component will increase as programs' overall size increases. This directly contradicts a crucial assumption of object-oriented design --- that large programs can be build by combining many small components.