Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

In This Respect A Program Is Like A Poem: You Cannot Write A Poem Without Writing It. Yet People Talk About Programming As If It Were A Production Process And Measure "programmer Productivity" In Terms Of "number Of Lines Of Code Produced". In So Doing They Book That Number On The Wrong Side Of The Ledger: We Should Always Refer To "the Number Of Lines Of Code Spent".

Aim For Brevity While Avoiding Jargon.

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

Industry Suffers From The Managerial Dogma That For The Sake Of Stability And Continuity, The Company Should Be Independent Of The Competence Of Individual Employees.

Fortran, The Infantile Disorder, By Now Nearly 20 Years Old, Is Hopelessly Inadequate For Whatever Computer Application You Have In Mind Today: It Is Now Too Clumsy, Too Risky, And Too Expensive To Use.