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From: Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 17:58:19 -0400
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Cor <cornews@clsnet.nl> writes:

   Some entity, AKA "B. Pym" <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org>,
   wrote this mindboggling stuff:
   (selectively-snipped-or-not-p)

   > On 12/16/2023, cor@clsnet.nl wrote:
   >
   >> Any marginally usable programming language approaches an ill
   >>        defined barely usable re-implementation of half of common-lisp
   >
   > The good news is, it's not Lisp that sucks, but Common Lisp.
   >  --- Paul Graham

   Just to set the record straight;
   This is not My line.
   I quoted it but don't know who the originator of that remmark is.

What you quoted is so close to "Greenspun's tenth rule" (see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule>), that I think
Phil Greenspun probably deserves the credit.

- Alan