Nothing is new. When I was a NOOP programmer I knew the crusty old build engineer called Diane. She did not like my shell script and rewrote it with a terse

Nothing is new. When I was a NOOP programmer I knew the crusty old build engineer called Diane. She did not like my shell script and rewrote it with a terse comment "Exit early and often". The same idea as the article and this was in the late 1990s. It was a lot shorter and easier to understand.