Limits of Metaprogramming

[Iain King]

On Aug 4, 5:13 pm, Tomasz Rola <rto... at ceti.com.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Wilson wrote:
> > " Every sufficiently large application has a poor/incomplete
> > implementation ofLISPembedded within it ".
>
> Yep, this is either exact or very close copy of what I have read.
>

It's 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."

Iain