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“Indeed, one of the ways of establishing conceptual control over such structure [software plans as richly connected network graphs] is to enforce link cutting until one or more of the graphs becomes hierarchical.”—Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Brooks, usually profound, of course misses that you can have coherence without hierarchy, and that to cut a link is to destroy information.

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