Imo good software engineering === minimizing effort. More specifically: * Minimizing effort in both the short and the long term (biased towards the long term

Imo good software engineering === minimizing effort. More specifically: * Minimizing effort in both the short and the long term (biased towards the long term because it's... longer). * Minimizing effort as long as product quality is the same/better. If you make things easy to do well, all other desired qualities will follow automatically.