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Whenever this comes up I think of Greenspun tenth rule[0]: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-
by karmakaze 3y ago
Whenever this comes up I think of Greenspun tenth rule[0]:
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
I find it specifically applicable to evolving configuration systems.
> It can also be interpreted as a satiric critique of systems that include complex, highly configurable sub-systems.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule