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A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.

If computer languages were To write a decent program, you have to discipline your brain *far* more than you would need with any language (because, let's face it, other people are forgiving but compilers or computers are not). The discipline of computre programming has made considerable progress over the years. I think there are a large number of people in the JAP category who are there because programming is considered a discipline unto itself, with its own career path. It's also a discipline which, like martial arts, changes fundamentally the way you see the universe, once you get far enough in and become advanced enough. 'The Pragmatic Programmer' isn't about a particular language or development environment, but it teach programmers how to think about programming as a discipline. Thus, orthogonality is an important mathematical discipline intrinsic to the specification of recursive functions that is naturally applied in functional programming and specification. The capabilities and productivity of "professional" programmers vary widely. Mature aspect-oriented frameworks offer a disciplined approach to programming. To Ander's defense, let me acknowledge that AspectJ has been used for the ugly. With a few notable exceptions (e.g. Murnane, 1993) most research about the cognitive effects of computer programming seemed to have focused on programming as a problem solving rather than a linguistic activity.