Re: Programming Laws

[FoxtrotUniform]

• Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:
  There is always one more bug.
• Matt's First Law of User Interaction:
  What's obvious to the programmer will not be to the user.
• First Corollary to MFLoUI:
  You haven't made it obvious enough.
• Second Corollary to MFLoUI:
  The program's testers will ask the dumbest questions you can possibly think of.
• Matt's Second Law of User Interaction:
  Users are evil incarnate. They will break your code, overrun your buffers, circumvent your error checks, and make it your fault.
• Corollary to MSLoUI:
  Test your program with tame users first.
• Matt's Third Law of User Interaction:
  Users will not be happy with your program unless they can make it behave like the program it replaced.
• Corollary to MTLoUI:
  Every interactive program should admit, support, or include vi-like movement keys.
• Matt's Axiom:
  The maximum amount of fun you can have writing code is inversely proportional to the code's immediate user base.

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