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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran prog

• yoodenvranx 13y ago
  Are there any good real-world examples for this?
  • steveklabnik 13y ago
    Emacs? ;)
  • tonyg 13y ago
    The browser.
    • pcwalton 13y ago
      Well, it's pretty formally specified now. (Also pretty fast.)
      • silentOpen 13y ago
        It's kinda sorta specified in English prose. I wouldn't call that formal, though.
  • SixSigma 13y ago
    It's a similar observation to the Inner Platform Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect Any project that runs some sort of external script would count. Soon a config file has some sort of conditional (#define grows #ifdef) and variables. Also any project that has a VM (in the traditional sense) such as SCUMM. It incorporates the notion that Lisp will do everything already, the code as data as code that Lisp gives you is a win that coders dismiss until it's too late and they have spent years learning C++
• CmonDev 13y ago
  But at least, unlike CommonLisp, chances are it is actually used by someone.