Bonnes pratiques (datant de 1915) qui s’appliquent aussi bien à l’écriture qu’à la programmation : The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White.
Entre autres :
Omit needless words.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
The Elements of Style par William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White
