Thursday, September 17, 2026

programming: Greenspun's tenth rule

Greenspun's tenth rule - Wikipedia

Greenspun's tenth rule of programming is an aphorism in computer programming and especially programming language circles that states:[1][2]

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.


Philip Greenspun - Wikipedia

Philip Greenspun is an American computer scientist, educator, early Internet entrepreneur, and pilot who was involved in developing online communities such as photo.net.

MIT PhD



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