The Rule of Least Power

2021-05-20 → 2025-12-11

Principle: Powerful languages inhibit information reuse.
Good Practice: Use the least powerful language suitable for expressing information, constraints or programs on the World Wide Web.

See also Atwood’s law.

HTML, Markdown may be good examples.

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