There's a pattern in software engineering: the best principles weren't planned—they were discovered.
Unix Philosophy (1978) emerged from Bell Labs after building Unix. Rob Pike's C Rules (1989) came after C proliferated. Both were written to explain what was already working.
"The rules were discovered rather than declared."
This pattern repeats throughout software history... 1/3
Robert Roskam
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