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by userbinator 3626 days ago
The more I write code the more I realize that the entire purpose of the code is to have some effect on reality, and the more reliably it can do this, the better the code.

Very nicely put. The only "principles" I keep in mind when I write code are simplicity, correctness, and efficiency, and those tend to all be correlated.