Wadlers ,,Gesetz``

(analog Murphys Gesetz)

Phil Wadler, 1996, http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/curry/listarchive/0017.html

Twice as much time is spent discussing syntax than semantics, twice as much time is spent discussing lexical syntax than syntax, and twice as much time is spent discussing syntax of comments than lexical syntax.