Related:

• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs -- Niklaus Wirth
• EMACS: Emacs May Annihilate Command Structure
• Old architects never die, they just lose their structures.
• OLD LINGUISTS never die, they just rearrange their deep structures.
• An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools.
  Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use....
• It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
  --Charles Wrigh...
• To those accustomed to the precise, structured methods of conventional system development, exploratory development techniques may seem messy, inelegant, and unsatisfying.
  But it's a question of congruence: precision and flexibility may be just as disfunctional in novel, uncertain situations as sloppiness and vacillation are in familiar, well-defined ones....
• To those accustomed to the precise, structured methods of conventional system development, exploratory development techniques may seem messy, inelegant, and unsatisfying.
  But it's a question of congruence: precision and flexibility may be just as disfunctional in novel, uncertain situations as sloppiness and vacillation are in familiar, well-defined ones....