[WillAdams]

It's an improvement over demagoguery and blind rule-following.

Moreover, the book argues for engineering principles (in pretty much all possible senses of that phrase).

[okaleniuk]

Sure!

I'm not saying that philosophy is bad. Maybe making software just never meant to become an engineering discipline. I mean making clothes, laws, and music isn't. And it's fine.

But engineering does imply some rule-following.