Aim For Brevity While Avoiding Jargon.

Please Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Believing That I Am Terribly Dogmatical About The Go To Statement. I Have The Uncomfortable Feeling That Others Are Making A Religion Out Of It, As If The Conceptual Problems Of Programming Could Be Solved By A Single Trick, By A Simple Form Of Coding Discipline!

Raise Your Quality Standards As High As You Can Live With, Avoid Wasting Your Time On Routine Problems, And Always Try To Work As Closely As Possible At The Boundary Of Your Abilities. Do This, Because It Is The Only Way Of Discovering How That Boundary Should Be Moved Forward.

[though Computer Science Is A Fairly New Discipline, It Is Predominantly Based On The Cartesian World View. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra Has Pointed Out] A Scientific Discipline Emerges With The - Usually Rather Slow! - Discovery Of Which Aspects Can Be Meaningfully 'studied' In Isolation For The Sake Of Their Own Consistency.

Apl Is A Mistake, Carried Through To Perfection.

… What Society Overwhelmingly Asks For Is Snake Oil. Of Course, The Snake Oil Has The Most Impressive Names — Otherwise You Would Be Selling Nothing — Like “structured Analysis And Design”, “software Engineering”, “maturity Models”, “management Information Systems”, “integrated Project Support Environments” “object Orientation” And “business Process Re-engineering”.