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> Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in pyt
by type0 10y ago
> Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it.
Because you need a true Lisp machine... Next thing you know, you'll be waking up in "the matrix".
- criddell 10y ago> Because you need a true Lisp machine... Next thing you know, you'll be waking up in "the matrix". Hey now, Symbolics machines may have not been the fastest, but I rarely fell asleep in front of them.