Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zawinski's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: za-w-in-ski's law
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The wry observation that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

Etymology

Attributed to American computer programmer Jamie Zawinski.

Questions

What does zawinski's law mean?: The wry observation that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Where does zawinski's law come from?: Attributed to American computer programmer Jamie Zawinski.

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