Acronyms to live by
In this section, we will review some principles that yield some good design ideas. The point is to quickly relate to good software practices by acronyms that are easy to remember, working as a sort of mnemonic rule. If you keep these words in mind, you will be able to associate them with good practices more easily and finding the right idea behind a particular line of code that you are looking at will be faster.
These are by no means formal or academic definitions, but more like empirical ideas that emerged from years of working in the software industry. Some of them do appear in books, as they were coined by important authors (see the references to investigate them in more detail), and others have their roots probably in blog posts, papers, or conference talks.
DRY/OAOO
The ideas of Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) and Once and Only Once (OAOO) are closely related, so they were included together here. They are self-explanatory, and you should avoid...
