I proposed an incremental development strategy suitable for commercial software development in a competitive environment and explained it metaphorically as technical debt. This name stuck better than the strategy because condemning debt is much easier than exploiting it.
Smalltalk was well suited for refactoring due to a half dozen innovations based on LRG’s constructivist beliefs. The situation today is much more bleak though even small improvements will pay back many times.
Clarifications Abound but misinterpretations remain too numerous to tally.
Systematic Cleanliness while features emerged within a community of stylists.
Debt Strategies within large scale commercial software developments.