- First Law
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The Computer is always right
- Lemma one
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Programmers are occasionally right
- Second Law
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The amount of time needed to debug a program is inversely proprotional to the time allotted for debugging
- Corollary
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Programs never work the first time unless there is virtually unlimited time to complete the program
- Third Law
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Any programmer can find 90% of his bugs simply by explaining his program to an uninterested observer
- Corollary
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The uninterested observer may be sleeping, dead, nonhuman, or, in extreme cases, nonexistant
- Forth Law
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The most difficult or nearly impossible programming problems appear obvious or extremely simple to anyone with little or no knowledge of programming
- Corollary
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Those problems most easily solved by a programmer appear to be overwhelmingly complicated and marvelous to
the layman
- Fifth Law
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Computers are never more intelligent than their programmers
- Corollary
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Most computers are incredibly stupid
- Sixth Law
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The rarest bugs in any operating system or major programming effort will always show up in a demonstration
of its use to prospective users or customers
- Corollary
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These bugs usually cannot be reproduced and therefore cannot be located
- Lemma One
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Customers will never purchase programs which appear to be riddled with bugs as verified by demonstration
- Paradox
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Most programs are unfit for sale
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