Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by pplonski86 » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 1:36 PM UTC

Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)
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Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by jatsign » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

Don't forget Atwood's law:

"Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by BerislavLopac » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:17 PM UTC

There is an error in the ninety-ninety rule, which should be stated as:

    The first 90% of the code takes the first 90% of the time. The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time.

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by dreta » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

I know this is harsh, but if you're a web developer, and your blog requires a loading screen to read, at least on mobile, then maybe you should take a step back, and learn to program, before you start writing about programming.

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by BerislavLopac » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

jatsign wrote: post #2

Don't forget Atwood's law: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Or Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming:

    Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
    informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp.

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by cheez » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:20 PM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #5

jatsign wrote: post #2

Don't forget Atwood's law: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Or Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming : Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp.

aka JavaScript.

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by avip » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

dreta wrote: post #4

I know this is harsh, but if you're a web developer, and your blog requires a loading screen to read, at least on mobile, then maybe you should take a step back, and learn to program, before you start writing about programming.

100% agree. This website looks terrible. You can't be a self-declared "web developer", contemplate poetically about meta-programming, and publish this amateurish thing. Fix the #anchors to start with?

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by jacobush » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #5

jatsign wrote: post #2

Don't forget Atwood's law: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Or Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming : Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp.

I suppose you mean that half manifests itself as Javascript.

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by gpvos » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

Zawinski's law of software envelopment:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Re: Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

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Post by rubinelli » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #3

There is an error in the ninety-ninety rule, which should be stated as: The first 90% of the code takes the first 90% of the time. The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time.

A personal rule of thumb I derived from the ninety-ninety rule is this: "Before starting a project, ask yourself if you would still do it if you knew it would cost twice as much and take twice as long as you expect. Because it probably will."