Talk:Big ball of mud

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Here is quote — supposedly from Joel Moses — that is bouncing around the internet:

APL is like a diamond. It has a beautiful crystal structure; all of its parts are related in a uniform and elegant way. But if you try to extend this structure in any way - even by adding another diamond - you get an ugly kludge. LISP, on the other hand, is like a ball of mud. You can add any amount of mud to it and it still looks like a ball of mud. -— Joel Moses?, 1978?

Can somebody provide a reference for this quote? -- Tobias Bergemann 10:18, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

A Web search turned up http://people.bath.ac.uk/masjap/TYL/history.html which I will just note for future use (or not). This seems to be part of Julian Padget's papers, circa 1994. --Charles Gaudette (talk) 20:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)