I've experienced the 10th rule first hand... Many years ago I was writing a bunch of modular audio applications that were all interconnected using JACK. So of

I've experienced the 10th rule first hand... Many years ago I was writing a bunch of modular audio applications that were all interconnected using JACK. So of course I needed some convenient way of storing/restoring the graphs that connected the various components that were always in flux -- each audio experiment had it's own graph, but there were often re-occurring sub-graphs. So, I started to build a small cli utility that could save the current graph and restore it later... of course because of the common sub-graphs it needed to be able to refer to other labeled graphs so i could easily reference and re-use them... and of course to (save myself time) it also needed to have arithmetic composability so that I could add/subtract existing graphs to create new ones... and of course it would be helpful if I could also annotate the graphs so that they could launch the associated programs... So in the end I had a generic DSL that had recursive graph parsing, reification (labels), graph composability, arithmetic composability, and could associate arbitrary labels with executable code. I eventually looked up from my adderal fueled hack-a-thon and realized I had created a half-baked LISP and decided it was time for to go to bed! :)