Glue code is almost always uninteresting, incidental, boilerplate. But as the author points out, it makes up for the large majority of a code base because it gr

Glue code is almost always uninteresting, incidental, boilerplate. But as the author points out, it makes up for the large majority of a code base because it grows quadratically with the number of components that need to be glued together. A powerful language to describe what needs to connect to what (similar to the Unix pipe) could perhaps make the glue code much more obvious and concise. Whether that's achievable is the question the author is asking, and apparently trying to answer.