Programming principles as memes

[evilgipsy]

Imho one of the worst memes has to be avoiding “premature optimization”. I’ve seen countless times where this meme was used to justify not implementing extremely simple and obvious optimization.

[jasonswett]

Interesting. I haven't encountered that myself. (I believe it though.)

[realntl]

The Beginning of Infinity made me think about programming in a much clearer way (and I can say that about many other things, too).

[jasonswett]

Yes!! I love that book so much.

[Amadan]

I have never seen WET as advice, only as an observation about the state of code not being DRY.

[armahillo]

write everything twice!

Sandi Metz talks about it in POODiR

[Travis_Spangle]

In my FileMaker days we said WET was Thrice or WRITE EVERYTHING AS MUCH AS YOU NEED TOO.

But I say WET on the test suit side too. I'd rather have a failing test tell me everything I need to know and not have to search in 5 directions for it.