On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:48:08PM -0400, Ricker, William wrote: > Chris Devers was however obviously looking for this rather specific > elaboration of Santayana's, as it captures the inevitableness. > > [ "Any sufficiently complicated c or fortran program contains an ad hoc > informally- > [ specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." > [ -Greenspun's 10th law of programming > [ http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000tgU > > Note - there are no laws (1..9).
Actually, I think he was looking for Henry Spencer's old quote: "Those who do not understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it - badly." -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
