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I had the impression that there was a paper or article somewhere that claimed every sufficiently large project (not written in a Lisp variant) contained a poorly implemented Lisp interpreter. Google turns up nothing and a quick search of SO doesn’t either. Is this something well known and documented somewhere I have forgotten, or just a figment of my imagination?
An actual document or link to such an article would be appreciated, if it exists. Otherwise, I will remove the question.
Yes, this claim is Greenspun’s tenth rule (actually the only rule):
It is making a valid point about the expressiveness of Lisp-style features (particularly its kind of macros). However, it isn’t serious to the degree you would write a paper on it.