“A reminder that the goal of a given computer program is first of all to meet some business requirement may come across as a platitude. In practice, the excitem

“A reminder that the goal of a given computer program is first of all to meet some business requirement may come across as a platitude. In practice, the excitement of technological challenges often slowly causes attention to drift from the end to the means…” —Stephane Faroult, “The Art of SQL”