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Re:Laws of Software Engineering by d--b on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:14AM (#47847698)
It's missing:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

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Re:Laws of Software Engineering by tgv on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:49AM (#47848044)
Shouldn't it also be able to read email? I think that was a law too.

Anyway, the list seems like something AI scraped and has a strong bias towards "gotcha" comments from the likes of reddit.

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