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The witty version is known as Greenspun's tenth rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden,

The witty version is known as Greenspun's tenth rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." The general pattern is called the Inner-Platform Effect.

anthk 2y ago
And a complete TCL spec.
fallous 2y ago
YES! The Inner-Platform Effect is exactly what I was trying to dig up through my fossilized neurons. Thank you.