Limits of Metaprogramming

[Iain King]

Re: Limits of Metaprogramming

On Aug 4, 5:13 pm, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.co m.plwrote:

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Wilson wrote:

" Every sufficiently large application has a poor/incomplete
implementation ofLISPembedded within it ".

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Yep, this is either exact or very close copy of what I have read.
>

It's 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."

Iain

[Wilson]

Re: Limits of Metaprogramming

On 8 Aug, 13:30, Iain King <iaink...@gmail .comwrote:

On Aug 4, 5:13 pm, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.co m.plwrote:
>

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Wilson wrote:

" Every sufficiently large application has a poor/incomplete
implementation ofLISPembedded within it ".

>

Yep, this is either exact or very close copy of what I have read.

>
It's 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."
>
Iain

Thanks for that. Makes my attempt look pathetic! :)