Make the change easy A Tweet by Kent Beck twitter.com For each desired change: Make the change easy (warning: this may be hard) Make the easy change The State of Agile Software in 2018 changesoftwarerefactoring
Structural parallelism If the new phrase has the same structure as the preceding one, its words can be slotted into the waiting tree, and the reader will absorb it effortlessly. The pattern is called structural parallelism, and it is one of the oldest tricks in the book for elegant (and often stirring) prose. “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.” Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style The principle of parallel construction