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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by maximilianroos on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:48AM (#24893730)
Greenspun's tenth rule [0]:

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

Also:

> Hacker Robert Morris later declared a corollary, which clarifies the set of "sufficiently complicated" programs to which the rule applies "...including Common Lisp."

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by flavio81 on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:50PM (#24898927)
>Hacker Robert Morris later declared a corollary, which clarifies the set of "sufficiently complicated" programs to which the rule applies "...including Common Lisp."

This is referring to CL implementations that depend heavily on C.

Many CL implementations now are almost 100% Lisp code.

Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by drran on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:14AM (#24894500)
JavaScript (which is based on Scheme dialect of Lisp) is formally specified, well-developed, and fast, so quote above is outdated.
Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by TeMPOraL on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:37AM (#24894645)
JavaScript isn't based on Scheme, it's what would have been Scheme if deadlines and marketing needs didn't make Netscape use a hacky toy language instead.

The place where JavaScript contains "an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp" is Babel.