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warfangle on Dec 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Lambda Calculus

Any sufficiently advanced C program has redefined LISP poorly; any sufficiently advanced LISP program has redefined C poorly.

I can't recall where I first read this conjecture (booze; mobile).

mahmud on Dec 18, 2012 [–]

You butchered Greenspun's Tenth Rule (booze; dekstop)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

warfangle on Dec 18, 2012 | [–]

Completely butchered. Thanks for the link.

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