Greenspun's 10th rule and the sad state of software quality

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eadmund · 8h ago

Interestingly, HN now runs in Clarc, an Arc dialect written in Common Lisp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969

So everyone reading HN is in a sense using Common Lisp!

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Greenspun's 10th rule and the sad state of software quality

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