The Rule of Least Power.

Berners-Lee, T., & Mendelsohn, N. (2006). The Rule of Least Power.

Type

Web resource

Intellectual base

Web

Year

2006

Link

https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html

Cited from

computer_science

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Primes

• Principle of Least Privilege
  • The rule of least power bounds a mechanism's expressiveness — what it can compute or say.

    This sourceStates that the least powerful language suitable for a purpose should be chosen, bounding a mechanism's expressiveness rather than its authority.

• Rule of Least Power (Minimum Sufficient Capability)
  • In software and web architecture, it favors declarative HTML and CSS over Turing-complete JavaScript when both suffice, because declarative artifacts can be indexed, transformed, and reasoned about by other tools, and it favors regular expressions over context-free grammars over general parsers when the input fits.

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