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Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

151 points · 80 comments · birdculture

  1. CodesInChaos · · focus · HN ↗
    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.

    1. pklausler · · focus · HN ↗
      Someday HN will go 24 hours without seeing this tired old quote, but today is not that day.
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