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		praptak on Nov 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) The conclusion is similar to the Greenspun quote "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

samatman on Nov 23, 2024 [–]

I've discovered that deploying this quote as a compliment to someone's ac hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow, half-of-Common-Lisp code, makes them increasingly nervous until you get to the punchline.

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