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wolfgke on Feb 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amplifying C (2010)

This is Greenspun's tenth rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule):

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

ktRolster on Feb 7, 2016 | [–]

The Morris corollary:

"Including Common Lisp." http://paulgraham.com/quotes.html

wolfgke on Feb 7, 2016 | | [–]

Can also be read on the wikipedia link that I posted. :-)

GFK_of_xmaspast on Feb 7, 2016 | [–]

I've asked for examples of this in the past and nobody's been able to provide any.

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