Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

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

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.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

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.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

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