DOS ain't dead

* The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition)
* ISO/IEC 9126 Software engineering -- Product quality (1991)

* Software prototyping
* You Aren't Gonna Need It (YAGNI)
* Plan to throw one away
* Project Management Triangle (aka, "Choose Two: Good, Fast, Cheap")

> DOS:
> Choosing a Memory Model by Bill Mayne (C News Vol. 1, Issue 11, 15
> Sep 1988)

while this is mostly correct from a 1988 perspective, compiler technology has seriously advanced since 1988, even for 16 bit compilers.

while it is easier (for dummies) to simply use simply compact and large memory models, selecting small or medium model and access the (hopefully) few large data structures using the __far keyword and the rest just __near produces usually much better (smaller and faster) code.

so the information above is mostly outdated.

* Choosing a Memory Model (Digital Mars)
* Our bloat problem (LWN.net, 2005)
* Software disenchantment

Top-down and bottom-up design

At about the time Logo was developed, an ideology of top-down programming as the only "allowed" technique became popular among adult computer scientists: design first, top-down; only then, start coding. Logo's programming style was and is proudly antithetical to such disciplines [Harvey 1991]. Sherry Turkle and Seymour Papert introduced the use of the French word bricolage (tinkering) to label the Logo style of work, in which children experiment freely until they obtain a result that seems worth preserving as a procedure [Turkle and Papert 1990].

[Harvey 1991]
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/bridge.html

[Turkle and Papert 1990]
Sherry Turkle and Seymour Papert. 1990. Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture. Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16, 1 (1990), 128-157.

From: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386329


My high school teacher taught me top-down programming style, while my father taught me bottom-up programming style.