Why does the Interpreter Pattern suck?

Question

In Steve Yegge\'s review of Design Patterns, he calls the Interpreter Pattern an \"in-joke\". He goes on to talk about how the perception of compilers have changed, yet how inte

Answer 1

The INTERPRETER pattern sucks because it's a codification of Greenspun's tenth rule:

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

This was stated in 1993. A modern addendum might include C++ and Java.