Quote #582
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.
-- Phil Greenspun
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.
-- Phil Greenspun
Related:
- VIII. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
Laws of Computer... - Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
Laws of Computer Programming,... - Quote #616
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the
tenth century A.D.
and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned... - Quote #38
Without naming names (which I couldn't anyway because I've forgotten exactly
who it was),
one the most amusing bug reports we received at Lucid... - There's no bug in this program.
It's the C optimizer!... - Any sufficiently advanced bug becomes a
feature... - Any sufficiently advanced feature is indistinguishable from a bug.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable... - FORTRAN is a good example of a language
which is easier to parse using ad hoc techniques.
D. Gries [What's good about it? Ed... - languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every
hacker knows one of these,
and most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk...
