Subject: Re: Beginner's Language?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 12 May 2001 10:18:07 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9dj2kv$7klcs$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
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| Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
| > > Perhaps Perl has a convenient notion for talking about 
| > > shared and circular structure, too...?
| > 
| > Of course it does.  Remember Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming :)
| 
| Uh, can't say that I do.
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<URL:http://philip.greenspun.com/research/index.html>
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." 


-Rob

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