To build on that a little: the main point he makes is that a lot of the decision making can be made during the design process of the software, if you think abou

To build on that a little: the main point he makes is that a lot of the decision making can be made during the design process of the software, if you think about not just building a few features, but building THE few features. I agree with almost all of what he says, the one place he loses me is with the SUPER concise python and C++ code he shows (while (c++ = s++) to copy an array). It makes no sense - that's not elegant, that's just concise - it's very unreadable (at least to someone who has little C++ experience). Elegance and efficiency are correlated, but they aren't the same thing.