I had trouble getting to the conclusions that Steve has drawn here, mostly because I found the article all over the map. In the postscript, he talks about how d

I had trouble getting to the conclusions that Steve has drawn here, mostly because I found the article all over the map. In the postscript, he talks about how difficult it was to write it and he actually cut stuff out. I think his intended message would be greatly improved with greater focus. I think he was attempting to draw from disparate things to build a picture of programmers at various stages of growth, but his conclusions read more like a list of general best practices. It was not what I expected as conclusions to the article.