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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.

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Someday HN will go 24 hours without seeing this tired old quote, but today is not that day.

I am soooo tired of that quote. Especially because it’s BS. In 30+ years in the industry, I’ve never seen it happen. Not once. And I’ve never seen anyone demonstrate it convincingly on a real, large-scale commercial project either.

Huh, really?

Yes really. Do you have any examples yourself you would like to show?

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