URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/EndBracket/default.aspx the following excerpt of some part of the essence: all good programming exhibits the same time-honored qualities: simplicity, readability, modularity, layering, Design, Efficiency, Elegance, And Clarity.SImplicity Means you do't do in ten Lines What You can do in FIVE.READABILITY Means What It Says: That Others Can Read your code.
Modularity Means your program is Built Like The Universe.
Layering Means That Internal, Your Program Resembles a.
Design Means You Take Time To Plan your program before you build it.
Efficiency mens your program is fasc.
Elegance Is Like Beauty: Hard to Describe But Easy to Recognize.
Clarity is the granddaddy of good programming, The Platinum Quality All The Others Serve.