I was looking in my old Bell Labs notebooks and found this (handwritten) passage from 1997. It has some arguable points, and I'd probably say much of it differently today (with fewer male pronouns at least), but I found it worth rereading. I was thinking about the book that would eventually become The Practice Of Programming with BWK.
Note that there are whole sentences in this short passage that can't fit in a toot, but the alt text appears unbounded, so grab it there if you care.
@robpike programming is design, not engineering.
@multiplex @robpike engineering and programming are both forms of design
@fasterandworse @robpike good point - there was a different point that was being made but words get in the way.
@multiplex @robpike oh I wasn't disagreeing with you, just riffing off you :)