[development] Proposed Apocrypha

[James Gilliland]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jeff Eaton <jeff at viapositiva.net> wrote:

> Crell's Law: If an API must be use-case-optimized, make it swappable &
> tailor the default for cheap shared hosting. High-end sites can swap.
>
> Eaton's Corollary: If an API is swappable, write two implementations. APIs
> with one test case are rarely flexible enough for the second.
>
> --eaton
>
As I noted on IRC when this was mentioned, maybe there should be another
law.

Drupal Law 0: If you need to do something, make an API for it first.

Or maybe that's just eaton's first law? ;)
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