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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