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Laws I've Heard Of

Cunningham's Law

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.

Poe's Law

Without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

Sayre's Law

In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.

Wadler's Law

In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position.

  1. Semantics
  2. Syntax
  3. Lexical syntax
  4. Lexical syntax of comments
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