It's another example of the ~800 volume work titled "Where the indirection go?" A solid 90% of the variation you see in the programming world is moving indirection higher or lower, inside or outside, like moving food around on a plate. When you compound these choices, you get a combinatorial explosion that's both intimidating and absurd. And the clearest indication yet that, despite our pretensions, software engineering is, in fact, software alchemy awaiting systemization. We need Lavoisier and Mendeleev for software, stat!