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statictype on Aug 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yahoo Store now C++ (comments by pg from 2003)

Nice explanation.

I have to ask though: Is Greenspunning such a bad thing?

It seems like this would be true of any non-trivial software system (successful or not).

What's the variant of the 10th rule - something like:

'Every complex system contains an ad-hoc informally specified implementation of Common Lisp. Including Common Lisp'

arohner on Aug 7, 2011 [–]

> I have to ask though: Is Greenspunning such a bad thing?

Yes, because if you knew you needed Common Lisp, you'd just use CL, rather than an ad-hoc informally specified implementation of CL. In general, the half implementation has half the value of the 'real' implementation.

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