[development] Proposed Apocrypha

[larry at garfieldtech.com]

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:

> At least in my experience a "what if they were 3" makes a huge
> difference to avoid 2 just a special case of 1.
> But anyway how could you plan or even think an API could be
> useful knowing just 2 use-case?
> But then... when you cut and paste more than once... you need an
> API ;)
> 3 is the magic number!

3 is ideal.  Two markedly different implementations can also suffice, 
for certain definitions of "markedly".  (DBTNG was good with MySQL and 
Postgres, with an eye toward Oracle.  It's better with SQLite, which 
forced some heavy rethinking that ended up making a much cleaner 
implementation without changing the API.)

>> And three cheers for Crell's Law and Eaton's Corollary.
> 
> I would extend that cheers further than just for the Law
> and the Corollary.
> 
> BTW Ernie that`s called delegation and everybody know that
> delegation is the solution to all CS problems.

There is no problem in computer science that cannot be solved by adding 
another layer of indirection (except micro-performance).

--Larry Garfield