> The reality that most people don't want to hear is that he could do this because he himself was the domain expert. Also he was an engineer. Most programmers

> The reality that most people don't want to hear is that he could do this because he himself was the domain expert. Also he was an engineer. Most programmers these days aren't engineers (despite the title) and that's OK for how things are done. But in the 60s most programmers were engineers, and that process is different.