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eyelidlessness on Sept 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp implemented in Rust macros

The rule defines it tautologically. Which is sufficiently unambiguous for its purpose!

throw-the-towel on Sept 14, 2024 [–]

Greenspun's tenth rule, corollary: Any sufficiently precise definition of "complex system" contains an ad hoc, informal, bug-ridden, slow specification of half of Common Lisp.

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