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

'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 [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Rexxar 11y ago
The real failure of this law is that, even if you use Common Lisp (or every other language), to implement your software you will finally have an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp implemented in your software. The solution is to design your software as a compiler from the start.