A source-cited reference to software engineering folklore
80:20 rule · Boilerplate code · Cargo cult programming · Code bloat · Code smell · Cowboy coding · Dependency hell · Design smell · Don't repeat yourself · Experimental software engineering · Fundamental theorem of software engineering · Law of conservation of complexity · Leaning toothpick syndrome · Magic (programming) · Magic number (programming) · Ousterhout's dichotomy · Programming in the large and programming in the small · Reinventing the wheel · Rule of least power · Rule of three (C++ programming) · Software rot · Spaghetti code · Turing tarpit · Heisenbug · all 26 →