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A new law?

• pjmlp 13y ago
  No, an old law. "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." Since the quote is from 1993, you just need to replace C and Fortran by the languages of the day.
  • gruseom 13y ago
    That's about the evolution of complicated programs, so quite different.
    • samatman 13y ago
      You'd be surprised how many language runtimes are complicated programs written in C....
      • gruseom 13y ago
        But putting an s-expression front end on the language doesn't do anything to escape Greenspun, does it? Two different phenomena.