A sufficiently large program

Tuesday 18 November 2003 — This is 21 years old. Be careful.

For no particular reason (yeah, right!), I was reminded at work of this claim by Philip Greenspun:

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

Many more quips about computers and programming languages can be found at Quotes for Programmers.

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Hans Nowak 3:39 PM on 18 Nov 2003
Yah, that's Greenspun's Tenth Rule. You'd think that implies that there are at least 9 more rules, but nobody seems to know what they are. :-)

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