According to the "Rule of least power", or Atwood's Law, a design principle which "in web programming, suggests choosing the least powerful computer language suitable for a given purpose". Stated alternatively, given a choice among computer languages, classes of which range from descriptive (or declarative) to procedural, the less procedural, more descriptive the language one chooses, the more one can do with the data stored in that language.
Who is this "Atwood" imposter! +Martin Paulo has been saying this for years! ;) I think it was named "Paulo's Postulate" or "Martin's Meme" or something.
It's fun being a leader! Paulo's postulate was slightly different
Salon asked "What happens when computers stop shrinking? " Paulo's postulate was: Who cares? At this rate by 2020 the IP lawyers will have strangled the whole software scene. Any slow down on the hardware will struggle to match the slow down that the patent lawyers and music/movie industries will have brought to the table :-(
I've seen nothing to convince me otherwise in the intervening years. And yes, I'm still standing by my JavaScript predictions made all those years ago - nice to hear others are coming around to my point of view :)
I think it was named "Paulo's Postulate" or "Martin's Meme" or something.
Salon asked "What happens when computers stop shrinking? " Paulo's postulate was: Who cares? At this rate by 2020 the IP lawyers will have strangled the whole software scene. Any slow down on the hardware will struggle to match the slow down that the patent lawyers and music/movie industries will have brought to the table :-(
I've seen nothing to convince me otherwise in the intervening years.
And yes, I'm still standing by my JavaScript predictions made all those years ago - nice to hear others are coming around to my point of view :)