Production Speed Is Severely Slowed Down If

Beauty Is Our Business.

If There Is One 'scientific' Discovery I Am Proud Of, It Is The Discovery Of The Habit Of Writing Without Publication In Mind.

Object-oriented Programming Is An Exceptionally Bad Idea Which Could Only Have Originated In California.

… What Society Overwhelmingly Asks For Is Snake Oil. Of Course, The Snake Oil Has The Most Impressive Names — Otherwise You Would Be Selling Nothing — Like “structured Analysis And Design”, “software Engineering”, “maturity Models”, “management Information Systems”, “integrated Project Support Environments” “object Orientation” And “business Process Re-engineering”.

Our Intellectual Powers Are Rather Geared To Master Static Relations And That Our Powers To Visualize Processes Evolving In Time Are Relatively Poorly Developed. For That Reason We Should Do (as Wise Programmers Aware Of Our Limitations) Our Utmost To Shorten The Conceptual Gap Between The Static Program And The Dynamic Process, To Make The Correspondence Between The Program (spread Out In Text Space) And The Process (spread Out In Time) As Trivial As Possible.