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Re: Find the longest word in the word list file.


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Find the longest word in the word list file.
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:05:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hongyi Zhao wrote:

> ``Greenspun's tenth rule'' says [1]:
>
> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains
> an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow
> implementation of half of Common Lisp.

There are many awesome programs written in C, Quake for
example, we have already mentioned Emacs and Linux but huge
parts of the Unix tool chain is in C.

On the contrary programs written in Lisp isn't common anymore.

It is thanks to Emacs not the least that it survives and
attracts new programmers at all.

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