Hi Al, thanks for the link!

I could not dive into the detail of his talk. But I'll keep it for the next weekend as I still have difficulty with the kind of strongly-typed programming this giant was advocating. But what a giant contributor to our current programming world! And of course, his plea for simplicity resonates highly to-day.

"The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built"

As you say, "I could not agree more". And I am certainly not alone on the UT:-)

I recently read about "the return of the monolith"... Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, effectivement!

https://devops.com/microservices-amazon-monolithic-richixbw/