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		koenigdavidmj on Feb 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Scheme Faster than C? > Hence we end up with c-programs with accidentally embedded lisp implementations. See Greenspun's Tenth Rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. And of course the famous corollary: Including Common Lisp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_Tenth_Rule

silentbicycle on Feb 18, 2011 [–]

XML is proof that Greenspun's Tenth Rule applies to data, as well. :)

derleth on Feb 19, 2011 | [–]

I've said this before, but JSON is actually more like sexprs than XML is.

silentbicycle on Feb 19, 2011 | | [–]

Agreed, but XML does a far better job of re-implementing sexprs badly.

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