Fogus’s Tenth Rule
with all apologies to Philip Greenspun
Any sufficiently complicated Clojure program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of OPS5.
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with all apologies to Philip Greenspun
Any sufficiently complicated Clojure program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of OPS5.
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Ivan Pierre
You mean the Common LISP version or you are so old as me ? :D
May 1st, 2013
Tangerine
I think it’d be amazing if you elaborated on this. Things like Clojure’s core.logic are sometimes hyped up, but I often have difficulty seeing the applicability of logic programming to programs. How would it be useful to a web server, or a Conway’s Game of Life app, or something like Chris Granger’s Light Table?
But to apply Greenspun’s Tenth Rule to Clojure and OPS5 makes me wonder if I’m truly missing something universal. I wish someone could explain it.
Then again, maybe it’s—just as some people say that the relational algebra/calculus ought to replace almost all general-purpose data structures (e.g. in Out of the Tar Pit), since it’s universally applicable (assuming it’s abstracted from the actual implementation)…
…maybe rule-based logic programming would be able to replace Clojure’s essentially imperative functions passing around tree-like, hierarchal data structures (vectors, maps, etc.)
Or, heh, maybe you mean something completely different.
May 1st, 2013
fogus
@Tangerine well, if my Clojure conj proposal gets accepted then I’ll have a lot to say on the matter. :-)
May 28th, 2013
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