What are DRY, KISS, SOLID, etc. classified as?

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Published on 2011-05-02T17:36:20Z Indexed on 2012/10/25 5:20 UTC
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Is something like DRY a design pattern, a methodology, or something in between? They do not have specific implementations that could neccessarily be demonstrated(even if you can easily demonstrate a case NOT using something like KISS... see The Daily WTF for a plethora of examples), nor do they fully explain a development process like a methodology generally would. Where does that leave these types of "rule of thumb"'s?

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