I agree with Arthur's answer, but unfortunately it runs afoul of Conway's Law: auteurs have a voice* and are capable of producing software in that style, but large organisations? By necessity, they must produce something qualitatively different, that anyone can slot anything into anywhere, optimised for superficial comprehensibility over elegance.
* sometimes small groups? Doug McIlroy said he was lucky to have managed a software group whose members would sit around in the lunch room and brainstorm (reminiscent of the Little Prince?) not what they could add, but what they could remove.
« Par ma foi, il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien, et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela. » —JBP
* sometimes small groups? Doug McIlroy said he was lucky to have managed a software group whose members would sit around in the lunch room and brainstorm (reminiscent of the Little Prince?) not what they could add, but what they could remove.
« Par ma foi, il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien, et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela. » —JBP