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Misapplication? I thought the Law was meant to describe accidental implementations of Lisp rather than overt ones. In other words, "the complicated system you
by appamatto 15y ago
Misapplication? I thought the Law was meant to describe accidental implementations of Lisp rather than overt ones.
In other words, "the complicated system you made _just happens_ to contain a Lisp, and if you had noticed that requirement in the first place its design would have been cleaner."
- raganwald 15y agoI think you have captured the spirit of the law. The project in question was the development of a scripting language for something-or-other, so this wasn’t an accidental implementation of Lisp, it was done with malice aforethought.