Green Tops Tenth Rule Of Programming

A twist on GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming for fun and profit. Feel free to move this to TopMind topic when cooked.

• GreencoddsTenthRuleOfProgramming - Every sufficiently complex application will either have to use a database or reinvent one the hard way.

• Greenmux's Tenth Rule of Programming - No powerful classification system can work effectively by assuming mutual-exclusion of type or category. Thus, sets are more flexible than PrimaryNoun and polymorphism. (MutuallyExclusiveCategoriesDontScale)

• Greennav's Tenth Rule of Programming - OOP languages with lots of meta-ability are essentially a OODBMS, which are really NavigationalDatabases that store code snippets (methods) or pointers to snippets. (DOM and the SmallTalk environment qualify.)

• Greenfix's Tenth Rule of Programming - Any serious attempt to clean up and formalize navigational structures will lead to something that looks suspiciously relational.

• Greenverb's Tenth Rule of Programming - At least half of OO app methods are usually repetitious reinvented forms of DatabaseVerbs.

• Greenpsyc's Tenth Rule of Programming - Any detailed evidence for OO betterment will rely on assumptions or pet theories about human or personal pscyhology. (And the theories will either be wrong or not universal.)

• Greenlink's Tenth Rule of Programming - OO'ers talk about how powerful OO's behavior-handling abilities are, but the hard part and source of most OO headaches is managing all the relationships between objects.

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