The 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming

From The Psychology of Computer Programming by Jerry Weinberg:
 
 1. Understand and…

I was re-reading The Art of Unix Programming and re-discovered some great ideas. Sharing with you:
 
 Rule of Modularity
 
 Developers should build a program out of simple parts connected by well defined interfaces, so problems are local, and parts of the program can be replaced…

Code As Design

In 1992 Jack Reeves published an essay What Is Software Design? in the C++ Journal.
 
 His basic premise is: “that final source code…

From the introduction to The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike

Have you ever…
 
 wasted a lot of time coding the wrong algorithm?
 used a data structure that was too complicated?
 tested a program but missed an obvious…

Zawinski’s Law from the Jargon File:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Possibly inspired by “The Law of Software Development and Envelopment” at MIT:

Michael Jackson on Optimization:

1. Don’t.
2. Don’t Yet (for experts only).

Donald Knuth in Structured Programming with Goto Statements:

Programmers waste enormous amounts of…

Many developers take the terminal for granted. If you’ve ever tried to integrate with the TTY, you’ve seen what a crazy mess it has become.
 
 Linus Åkesson wrote an in-depth article about the TTY, it’s history, and the components involved.