A rich seam perhaps, but that needs to be "mined" and what you get is raw material.... uhm analogy still working right? There's a big difference between "someo

A rich seam perhaps, but that needs to be "mined" and what you get is raw material.... uhm analogy still working right? There's a big difference between "someone somewhere has done this and documented it" and "these exact builders have built 100s of these in my area." The gap between principle and practice. Software design and engineering is very influential these days, obviously on HN. We need to remember that bits have all sorts of magic to them. One magic is refactoring, bug fixing and malleability generally. With a building, any "bug" in the initial build is usually there forever.