"My ideals for a software development process are visibility, extensibility
and mobility: I want to know exactly what code is doing, I want to be able
to add new capabilities without harming other code that depends on old
behaviors, and I want to be able to redeploy something that's known to work
into other situations where it might also be useful. I saw the industry
moving in these directions when Lisp and Smalltalk made forays toward
enterprise adoption in the early 1990s, but the pendulum quickly swung back
from these flexible tools--to get us stuck in the immobile, brittle
complexity of platform-specific C++ and Windows DLL Hell."

                     Peter Coffee (November 29, 2001 // Volume 1, Issue 22)