[stcredzero]

The ability to do it once and have it come out right.

One coworker of mine was the son of one of the engineers of the XC-142 tiltwing aircraft. He started a project to make a functional scale model, and this was before Arduino, so we decided to use a Gumstix Linux board. (Because of its generous number of GPIO outputs.) I wrote a bit-banging implementation of the flight surface control mixing in C. It "just worked." No errors. It just ran the 1st time. It was even flown on a simpler aircraft.

This isn't my usual way, however. Usually, I'm quite iterative. If you're going to write a program that works the 1st time, then it helps if the control flow is relatively simple, there isn't a lot of complexity that can come about with interaction with state, and it does just one thing.