"But instead of arduously cleaning the whole sink once in a while, another alternative is cleaning and putting away your dishes away as you use them." This is

"But instead of arduously cleaning the whole sink once in a while, another alternative is cleaning and putting away your dishes away as you use them." This is called the boy scout rule (or the campsite rule) - leave each piece of code you change a little bit cleaner than when you got there: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Boy_Scout_Rule http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Bo...