On: A Lisp interpreter in TypeScript

[lomnakkus]

Thus, yet again, sort-of-validating Greenspun's 10th Rule.

I'm not complaining... just observing :).

[gadtfly → lomnakkus]

As much as I love a good Greenspun invocation, I don't think this really counts:

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

isn't about the inevitability of literally implementing a Lisp interpreter.

It's about something more abstract. see: http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?LevelsOfGreenspunning

[DonHopkins → gadtfly]

It's still got a good shot at validating Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment.

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

[lomnakkus → gadtfly]

Mostly agreed. Which is why I said "sort-of-validating".

... so that I would be technically correct. Which, as we all know, is the best kind of correct. (Source: Futurama)