The rule that the organisation of the software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent originally 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 anything it was just that you lost fewer card decks and listings because they all had SAVE written on them. [Jargon File]
