From: William Deakin
Subject: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <39F940AE.3E50E2B3@pindar.com>
This just came up on freshmeat (homepage: members.home.net/jazzturk look
for Lisp.pm).

So it seems Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming[1] should now
extended. 

(sigh),

will



[1] "any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad
hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of
Common Lisp."
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <nkj7l6ur6y8.fsf@tfeb.org>
William Deakin <········@pindar.com> writes:

> 
> So it seems Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming[1] should now
> extended. 
> 
> [...]
> 
> [1] "any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad
> hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of
> Common Lisp."

curiosly I was just about to post an article asking for a cite for
this quote.  Can anyone provide a definite reference (perhaps better
by mail and I'll sumarise if need be)?

Thanks

--tim
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <nkj66mer6qt.fsf@tfeb.org>
* I wrote

> curiosly 

curiously.  Now all the spelling flame people can hate me, and all the
anti-spelling flame people can hate me too!  Just in case I've left
anyone out I'll just add that I think Lisp is crap.

--tim
From: William Deakin
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <39F94860.21A1CD0A@pindar.com>
Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> 
> * I wrote
> 
> > curiosly
> 
> curiously.  Now all the spelling flame people can hate me, and all the
> anti-spelling flame people can hate me too!  Just in case I've left
> anyone out I'll just add that I think Lisp is crap.


What about the Welsh? 

;) will
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <nkj4s1yr5xu.fsf@tfeb.org>
William Deakin <········@pindar.com> writes:

> 
> What about the Welsh? 
> 

Better than the Americans.
From: Rob Warnock
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <8ted4l$3n9fb$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Tim Bradshaw  <···@tfeb.org> wrote:
+---------------
| William Deakin <········@pindar.com> writes:
| > So it seems Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming[1] should now extended. 
| > [1] "any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad
| > hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of
| > Common Lisp."
| 
| curiosly I was just about to post an article asking for a cite for
| this quote.  Can anyone provide a definite reference...
+---------------

From the horse's mouth:

	<URL:http://philip.greenspun.com/research/>
	"...but I can no longer remember where I wrote it originally."


-Rob

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From: glauber
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <8tbque$dtt$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <·················@pindar.com>,
  William Deakin <········@pindar.com> wrote:
> This just came up on freshmeat (homepage: members.home.net/jazzturk look
> for Lisp.pm).


Great! finally a platform-independent Lisp implementation!

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) .... :-)

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From: Eugene Zaikonnikov
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <6yg0linzdl.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
* "glauber" == glauber  <··········@my-deja.com> writes:

glauber>  In article <·················@pindar.com>, William Deakin
glauber>  <········@pindar.com> wrote:
>> This just came up on freshmeat (homepage: members.home.net/jazzturk
>> look for Lisp.pm).

glauber>  Great! finally a platform-independent Lisp implementation!

Nah! It doesn't runs at all on my ZX Spectrum.

-- 
  Eugene
From: Mark-Jason Dominus
Subject: Re: Lisp-in-Perl 0.13 -- Arrggh
Date: 
Message-ID: <39f9f0a0.27de$2b3@news.op.net>
In article <·················@pindar.com>,
William Deakin  <········@pindar.com> wrote:
>This just came up on freshmeat (homepage: members.home.net/jazzturk look
>for Lisp.pm).

Gisle Aas wrote a Lisp implementation in Perl years ago.  It lives at

        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GAAS/perl-lisp-0.05.tar.gz
comp.lang.lisp / 2000 / oct