From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@...>
Date: 2008-08-25T03:45:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Why 'if 0' succeeds in Ruby

Brian Marick <marick@visibleworkings.com> writes:

> Back in my Common Lisp days, some Lisper (George Carrette, I think)  
> wrote about a dream he'd had. In it, he'd just written a fairly simple  
> piece of Lisp code when he realized Scheme's strictness was right. The  
> rest of the post was of the form:
>
> 	... and then I realized that Scheme was right about X and my code
> 	had been taking advantage of Lisp's sloppiness. So I fixed that...
>
> The punch line was that every "fix" made the code longer and more  
> complicated. It was brilliantly done, and I'm sad I've never been able  
> to find it.

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/random-text/T-lament

Cheers,
Joost.

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