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Quote #582 Greenspun's Tenth Rule Of Programming
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or
Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow
implementation of half of Common Lisp.
-- Phil Greenspun
Related:
VIII. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug. -- Laws of Computer Programming
Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug. Laws of Computer Programming, VIII
Quote #616 Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.
D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice....
Quote #38 Without naming names (which I couldn't anyway because I've forgotten exactly who it was)
one the most amusing bug reports we received at Lucid wrt Lucid Common Lisp was that "GC runs too fast"....
There's no bug in this program. It's the C optimizer!!
Any sufficiently advanced bug becomes a feature.
Any sufficiently advanced feature is indistinguishable from a bug.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec...
FORTRAN is a good example of a language which is easier to parse using ad hoc techniques.
-- D. Gries [What's good about it? Ed.]...
languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....