One of the things that's had the greatest impact on me is a comment D.J. Bernstein made about writing good software: For more than a decade I have been syste

One of the things that's had the greatest impact on me is a comment D.J. Bernstein made about writing good software: For more than a decade I have been systematically identifying error-prone programming habits—by reviewing the literature, by analyzing other people’s mistakes, and by analyzing my own mistakes—and redesigning my programming environment to eliminate those habits. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001502 http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001502 Given his track record with writing software largely without security defects, this seems like a promising avenue advancement.