avatarharuki zaemon

Godwin's Law of Java

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While reading A case against Annotations, I couldn’t help but laugh-out-loud at this particular response:

RoR is quickly becoming the Godwin’s Law of Java language related discussions:“As an online Java discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Ruby or RoR approaches 1 (i.e. certainty).” – Marc Stock

Some others off the top of my head:

  • Any editor and Emacs;
  • Any programming language and Smalltalk;
  • Windows and Linux;
  • …?

Having never heard of the Law before, I did a bit of reading and found, among other things, an FAQ and a paper by Mike Godwin himself.