> I was not influenced by code so much as clearly written, well-reasoned documents that boil a problem's solution down to a very clean abstraction. Hear hear.

> I was not influenced by code so much as clearly written, well-reasoned documents that boil a problem's solution down to a very clean abstraction. Hear hear. Even back in the days when the availability of coding talent was not so plentiful nor coding tools so powerful, I used to tell people that thorough system analysis is a lot more important than just code.