Re: how to make code stay invariant

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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.

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