An interesting (and free) book about the subject is "The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages" by Penelope Reed Doob https://www.amazon.com/Labyrinth-Classical-Antiquity-through... Sometimes it goes too far in seeing a "labyrinthine aesthetic" everywhere, but nevertheless it contains interesting information.

Speaking of labyrinths, programmers are like Daedalus: they design labyrinths, only to be immured inside them. Daedalus was commissioned to build an actual labyrinth; programmers set out to build cathedrals, but then mess up. They keep reworking sections of the labyrinth even as they are lost inside, trying to straighten out the paths, render them comprehensible. But they always end up creating more twists and turns.