Morris's Corollary
Well-known hacker Robert Morris later enounced a corollary which clarifies the set of "sufficiently complicated" programs to which the rule applies:
…including Common Lisp.This can be viewed as a commentary on the difficulty of creating an efficient implementation of the large and complex Common Lisp language, or simply a joke about Lisp's eval function. Both Greenspun's rule and Morris's corollary are examples of a characteristic style of hacker humor known as "ha ha only serious".
Read more about this topic: Greenspun's Tenth Rule
Famous quotes containing the word morris:
“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)