pozorvlak: (gasmask)
pozorvlak ([personal profile] pozorvlak) wrote2007-06-26 02:29 pm

Starting points for thought

The APL Lesson: If all your problems can be solved with short programs, it doesn't matter how hard it is to write or maintain long ones.

Smith's (First) Law: Any sufficiently large test suite for a program written in a dynamic language will contain an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow, patchy implementation of half of the Haskell type system.

Yegge's Axiom of Size: Large systems suck. This rule is 100% transitive. If you build one, you suck.

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