Squid language (was: Looking for tools for supportoftheoretical informatics research)

Jimmie Houchin jhouchin at texoma.net
Tue Jul 15 15:54:13 UTC 2003


Hannes Hirzel wrote:
[snip]
> 
> And it reminds me of the quotation that every reasonaly complex
> system includes a more or less well written Lisp interpreter
> in the end.
> 
> Who said that?

Possibly this quote by Philip Greenspun?
http://philip.greenspun.com/research/

Quotes

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."

If not, try:
http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html
for others.

Enjoy.

Jimmie Houchin




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