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# Best Practices

## Programming Notes

* In software engineering there are two things you are trying to get right:
  * Software Validation - Did we build the right thing?
  * Software Verification - Did we build the thing right?
* Software simplicity is a prerequisite to reliability.
* A small, simple API is usually also a hallmark of a well-understood problem.