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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