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The Law of Software Envelopment
Author: Fredrik Lundh Posted: 7/6/2000; 10:35:05 AM Topic: The Law of Software Envelopment Msg #: 18352 Prev/Next: 18351 / 18353
the o'reilly article got it all wrong. the original quote talks about reading mail, not sending:
The Law of Software Development and Envelopment at MIT:
Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail.
- unknown
here's an improved version:
The 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.
- Jamie Zawinski
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