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It's a fun quote, it reminds me of the "every sufficiently advanced program contains a bug-ridden implementation of half of common lisp", or something along tho

It's a fun quote, it reminds me of the "every sufficiently advanced program contains a bug-ridden implementation of half of common lisp", or something along those lines. But there really is a wide world of distributed consensus systems out there (although Paxos is easily the most elegant).

arthurcolle 4y ago
There's a variation of this on the subject of distributed systems re: Erlang/BEAM VM
- qohen 4y ago
  Yes, from Robert Virding, one of Erlang's co-creators, from the Erlang mailing-list, from 2008 [0]: After reading the blogs about how good Erlang's concurrency model is and how we just just made a super implementation of it in XXX I have been led to formulate Virding's First Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang. This is, of course, a mild travesty of Greenspun (*) but I think it is fundamental enough to be my first rule, not the tenth. [0] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2008-January/032226.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2008-January/03...
winkywooster 4y ago
You mean “Greenspun's tenth rule” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule