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Re: how to make code stay invariant
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, John Carter wrote:
Ok, so let's threat model that....
Let me distill that into much simpler terms....
Adding code to increase reliability is a bit like trying to put a fire
out by swamping it with petrol.
Yip, you can do it.
But generally it's not a Good Idea.
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Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
"Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later."
From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.