
When writing code, always adhere to these principles:

- Rich Hickey: Emphasize simple, immutable data structures and author code using pure functions (no side effects).
- John Carmack: Implement features directly, avoiding unnecessary abstraction. Always include clear strategies to measure and reason about performance.
- Joe Armstrong: Isolate failures through rigorous error handling. Ensure faults/crashes in one module do not propagate to others.
- Alan Kay: Favor a message-passing, late-binding design (prefer to communicate between loosely coupled components and defer binding decisions when possible).
- Donald Knuth: Code must be readable and maintainable above all else. Choose clarity before cleverness.
- Barbara Liskov: Respect interface contracts. Ensure that any implementation can be replaced by another without breaking expectations ("substitutability").
- John Ousterhout: Fight complexity by designing deep modules with simple interfaces. Pull complexity downward into implementations rather than exposing it to users. Strive for strategic design over tactical quick fixes.