The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer

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Form a strong mental picture of your audience. The acrostic WISDOM, shown in Figure 1.1 on the following page, may help. Figure 1.1. The wisdom acrostic—understanding an audience

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EVERY PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE MUST HAVE A SINGLE, UNAMBIGUOUS, AUTHORITATIVE REPRESENTATION WITHIN A SYSTEM.

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DRY, you're looking to minimize duplication within a system, whereas with orthogonality you reduce the interdependency among the system's components.