XML quote Re: Meeting Notes: SLUG Mon 14 Nov - Google Earth and everything else

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 07:54:03 EST 2006


On 11/14/06, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another old quote -- every non-trivial application has a non-trivial
> subset of a Lisp interpretter (and/or Fortran library) embedded, but
> implemented badly.

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of
Common Lisp."
                           -- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming

"…including Common Lisp."
                           -- Robert Morris's Corollary

-- Ben



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