Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 28 Oct 2000 11:26:13 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <8ted4l$3n9fb$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Tim Bradshaw  <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote:
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| William Deakin <w.deakin@pindar.com> writes:
| > So it seems Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming[1] should now extended. 
| > [1] "any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad
| > hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of
| > Common Lisp."
| 
| curiosly I was just about to post an article asking for a cite for
| this quote.  Can anyone provide a definite reference...
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From the horse's mouth:

	<URL:http://philip.greenspun.com/research/>
	"...but I can no longer remember where I wrote it originally."


-Rob

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