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>Zawinski's Law
>“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” Coined by Jamie Zawinski (who called it the “Law of Software Envelopment”) to express his belief that all truly useful programs experience pressure to evolve into toolkits and application platforms (the mailer thing, he says, is just a side effect of that). It is commonly cited, though with widely varying degrees of accuracy.
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@moonman The Zawinski scale is a method of measuring a program's level of sophistication, based on the amount of tasks a program is able to perform.[1] The scale has three designated categories:
A Type I program – also called the UNIX way – can only do one thing and does it well.
A Type II program can perform the tasks typical of a toolkit or application platform (the most popular hypothetical concept being the mail reader—a process which would connect via SMTP and transfer its mail to the program(s)).
A Type III program is Emacs.[2]
