- 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."
- Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
- jdporter's Conflation: "Every sufficiently complicated program includes a half-baked implementation of half of the POP (or IMAP) spec." For example: Adso.pl
It occurs to me that GTR* (not to be confused with the GRT) has a modern corollary which involves s/Lisp/XML/. :-P
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies
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* I wonder if it should be abbreviated "G10R". But then people might think that means "gocalizatior".
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