Why?

This is an anti-manifesto: it doesn't prescribe any particular methods of working; what you are working on is more important than how.

This is a bourgeois manifesto: it is thoroughly steeped in the metaphor of classical dining, and assumes that everyone shares a common understanding of what this means applied to software.

This is a conservative manifesto: it is distrustful of the new and unproven, and of people arguing for unspecified forms of change for no more reason than change itself.

This is a deconstructionist manifesto: it tries to show the inherent shallowness in positive adjectives attached to slogans as the basis for change; and it tries to be a manifesto in earnest at the same time.

This is an experimental manifesto: it is an attempt to see where you end up if you use values opposite of those normally espoused in manifestos.

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