TIMTOWTDI

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1. Information technology - coding.

Acronym for There Is More Than One Way To Do It, pronounced "Tim Toady".

A fundamental precept of the Perl programming language.

Often contrasted with the approach of the Python language:

"There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it."


2.

Similarly open and flexible approaches in other fields, including equifinality.


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