It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

JS will be a real functional language.

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.