DoD Ch. 12

     Brooks opens the chapter talking about esthetics and how people have been decorating things for centuries.  Then he related this topic to programming and mathematics.  The word parsimony and structural clarity arise in Brooks discussion about programming elegance.  Brooks continues discussing orthogonality and propriety issues in computer architecture.  He hits on the importance of structural clarity as well.  Then he moves onto styles of design. In his style section, he hit many topics like the importance of details, minimization of mental effort, clarity, and consistency. Then Brooks talks about the properties of style, i.e. specification, evolution, and consistency. He continues with some guidelines about how to achieve good style. These guidelines are make conscious judgements, practice, practice, practice, revise, and choose designers carefully.