I'd read about the Inner Platform effect on the Daily WTF: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/The_Inner-Platform_Effect.aspx?pg=2 http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/

I'd read about the Inner Platform effect on the Daily WTF: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/The_Inner-Platform_Effect.aspx?pg=2 http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/The_Inner-Platform_Effect.as... and the relevant quote: "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