Zawinski's law

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English

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Etymology

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Attributed to American computer programmer Jamie Zawinski.

Proper noun

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Zawinski's law

  1. (computing) The wry observation that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

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