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		plaes on Jan 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: S-Expressions: The Fat-Free Alternative to JSON Quoting Greenspuns tenth law: `Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp.`

rdtsc on Jan 20, 2012 | [–]

And then:

    Any sufficiently complicated CommonLisp
    program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified,
    bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Prolog.

anamax on Jan 20, 2012 | | [–]

One difference - the former is true, the latter, not so much.

koenigdavidmj on Jan 20, 2012 | [–]

Corollary:

  Including Common Lisp.

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