Any sufficiently advanced...

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Sat Jul 16 19:37:32 UTC 2005


Alan Lovejoy wrote:

> Here’s what Raab said:  "Any sufficiently complicated Java or VB program 
> contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation 
> of half of Smalltalk."

It's worth noting that this is a reference to Greenspun's tenth law:

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, 
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common 
Lisp."





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