At 10:41 AM 4/15/98 -0300, David Farber <dfarber at numenor.com> wrote:
>>Vassili Bykov        vassili at objectpeople.com
>> "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc
>>  informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
>>     -- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming
>
>Vassili, what the heck does this mean?

This means the message was sent from home, as opposed to a different quote 
in the office setup. :-)  Seriously, this means--or I take it this means-- 
that complex systems implemented in low-level languages cannot avoid 
reinventing and/or reimplementing (poorly on both counts) the facilities 
built into higher-level languages.  Like "garbage collection" in OLE or 
"keyword arguments" in X.

Cheers,

--Vassili

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