From: "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T12:48:28+09:00
Subject: Re: State of the Onion

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On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:05 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46724-1.html
> Just thought you'd like to know. ;)


So Larry Wall has reinvented Lisp without Lisp's minimalist elegance?
Dylan did it first, but at least it had the decency to call itself a
Lisp dialect.

Greenspun was proven right.  Again.


> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
> informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of
> Common Lisp.


-- 
Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
ttmrichter@gmail.com)
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective
code. (Richard Pattis)

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