Manifesto

Software Engineering Principles

Canonical Principles

KISS

DRY

Don't Repeat Yourself.

D&C

Divide and Conquer.

DLTW

Don't Reinvent the Wheel.

The Zen of Python

Principle 1

Beautiful is better than ugly.

Principle 2

Explicit is better than implicit.

Principle 3

Simple is better than complex.

Principle 4

Flat is better than nested.

Principle 5

Sparse is better than dense.

Principle 6

Readability counts.

The Unix Philosophy

Principle 1

Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

Principle 2

Write programs to work together.

Principle 3

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.