<story><title>Programming and Writing</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/135</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rytill</author><text>&amp;gt; I believe programming, in this regard, can learn something from writing: when writing the first core of a new system, when the original creator is still alone, isolated, able to do anything, she should pretend that this first core is her only bullet. During the genesis of the system she should rewrite this primitive kernel again and again, in order to find the best possible design. My hypothesis is that this initial design will greatly inform what will happen later: growing organically something that has a good initial structure will result in a better system, even after years of distance from the original creation, and even if the original core was just a tiny faction of the future mass the system would eventually assume.&lt;p&gt;I thought this paragraph had an interesting point. Does anyone have experience with testing this hypothesis?</text></comment>
<story><title>Programming and Writing</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/135</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keyle</author><text>Note, that post is over a year old and it looks like the book is available here&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;antirez.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;136&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;antirez.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;136&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also just realised the name was familiar, it&amp;#x27;s the redis guy that moved on.</text></comment>