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- Laws of Computer Programming
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- 1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
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- 2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.
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- 3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
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- 4) If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
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- 5) Any given program will expand to fill all available
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- memory.
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- 6) The value of a program is proportional to the weight
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- of its output.
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- 7) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the
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- capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
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- 8) Make it possible for programmers to write programs in
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- English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in
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- English.
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