The rule that the organisation of the software and the organisation of the software team will be congruentoriginally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you' ll get a 4-pass compiler".Melvin Conway, an early proto-hacker, wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE.The name "SAVE" didn' t stand for anythingit was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings because they all had SAVE written on them.[Jargon File]