In this talk from JaxConf 2012, Douglas Crockford discusses programming style and your brain, the relationship between the two and the importance of adopting a more rigorous programming style in your strive for lowering error rate.
"The approach I finally settled on was language subsetting, which was not something I ever expected. It's been said only a madman would use all of C++. It's also been said only a madman would use C++."