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.

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 strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.