Zawinski's law

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English

Etymology

Attributed to American computer programmer Jamie Zawinski.

Proper noun

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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