Tag: acronyms

Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is, ironically, said quite a lot. I think in general this is uncontroversial. If you have a choice between writing a lot of very similar code: Or something smaller that does the same job: You are probably going to choose the later. Maybe you think this is an overly simple example…

Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) has been around for a while and didn’t originate in software engineering. There are several variations that replace the word “stupid”, people tend not to like being called stupid, but none of them say it as well as just Keep It Simple. I’m also going include about the related concept,…