The Relationship Between Software Aesthetics and Quality

Charles Connell, president of CHC-3 Consulting, who also teaches computer science at Boston University, says most software design is lousy. In fact, he says most is so bad that if it were a bridge, no one would walk over it. The only reason software engineers get away with it is the general public can’t see inside software systems to observe the poor design, the bottlenecks and bugs, the impenetrable code