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whalesaladtoday at 4:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Reminds me of the infamous Robert Virding quote:

“Virding's First Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.”


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mrectoday at 5:23 PM

In case you weren't aware, that in itself is riffing on Greenspun's tenth rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule