Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

atwood's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English

Syllables: at-wood's law
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

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A tongue-in-cheek "law" of software development stating that "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Humorous

Example Sentences

"This was later codified in a more formal W3C document, The Rule of Least Power. I propose a corollary to this rule, which in the spirit of recent memes, I'll call Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."
"Since that time, web developers have produced nearly every type of application, including full-blown, cloud-based office suites (see Zoho.com), social APIs like Facebook's JavaScript SDK, and even graphically intensive video games. ¶ All of this is serving to prove Atwood's Law (http://bit.ly/1pFCjtR): "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.""

Etymology

Coined by American software developer, author, blogger and entrepreneur Jeff Atwood in 2007 (see quotation below).

Usage

Humorous

Questions

What does atwood's law mean?: A tongue-in-cheek "law" of software development stating that "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."
Where does atwood's law come from?: Coined by American software developer, author, blogger and entrepreneur Jeff Atwood in 2007 (see quotation below).

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