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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
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Subject: Re: Herb Lin's questons on LISP etc.
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Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 16:20:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  6 16:20:29 1984
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One of the problems with LISP, however, is it does not force one
to subscribe the code of good programming practices.  I've found
that the things I have written for my bridge-playing program (over
the last 18 months or so) have gotten incredibly crufty, with
some real brain-damaged patches.  Yeah, I realize it's my fault;
I'm not complaining about it because I love LISP, I just wanted
to mention some of the pitfalls for people to think about.  Right
now, I'm in the process of weeding out the cruft, trying to make
it more clearly modular, decrease the number of similar functions
and so on.  Sigh.
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh