# 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

**Wikidata**: [Q1242407](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1242407)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/don-t-repeat-yourself


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013