Squid language (was: Looking for tools for supportoftheoretical
informatics research)
Hannes Hirzel
hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Sat Jul 12 00:04:45 UTC 2003
Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>> "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
>>
> Well, if the original citation goes like that it is a bit unfair to
> Smalltalk to come up with this quotation.
>
> The Lisp nature of Smalltalk is well implemented, but it is somewhat
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> hidden syntactically and not often used in our programming.
>
P.S. I forgot to add if we have Anthony Hannans closure compiler added
in 3.7....
Hannes
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