don't repeat yourself

software development principle with the goal of reducing repetitive software patterns, and replacing them with abstractions that use data normalization to avoid redundancy
rdfs:label
"don't repeat yourself"@en
skos:altLabel
"DRY"@en
"DRY principle"@en
"once and only once"@en
schema:description
"software development principle with the goal of reducing repetitive software patterns, and replacing them with abstractions that use data normalization to avoid redundancy"@en
schema:dateModified "2026-10-21T20:50:59+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime
schema:version 2559580123
wikibase:identifiers 2
wikibase:sitelinks 24
wikibase:statements 7
p:P1482 wd:statement/Q1242407-23c3ad41-484e-1342-69b9-fdca4f94648d
wd:statement/Q1242407-5E38A943-87D4-4C52-A926-8A18080CA939
p:P1889 wd:statement/Q1242407-989CF503-1E2D-4D40-A8CE-7957156A2EC7
p:P31 wd:statement/Q1242407-7d296cf5-42d0-1627-eecf-0c7f6083b69f
wd:statement/Q1242407-B54548C9-EA0A-485E-9A2D-8714879F4A4E
p:P6366 wd:statement/Q1242407-5A5CC150-71FB-44EC-A043-F323AEFE7D14
p:P646 wd:statement/Q1242407-3AEE5088-D2FE-4FEC-83D2-20EEBE9F6368
p:direct-normalized/P6366 <https://makg.org/entity/23228864>
wdt:P1482 <https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/dry>
<https://stackoverflow.com/tags/dry>
wdt:P1889 Dry
wdt:P31 acronym
programming principle
wdt:P6366 "23228864"
wdt:P646 "/m/093qwz"
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