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"Paul Graham himself was completely written in lisp"
- Goladus 20y agoI wonder if the author knows he didn't write reddit.
- mattculbreth 20y agoHe does, yes. The comments are good in this thing too, pretty funny.
- papersmith 20y agoActually Lisp is so powerful that PG wrote an entire universe on the back of his napkin, out of which another PG has evolved who funded the reddit founders who first wrote reddit in Lisp, and later re-wrote it in what looked like python, but ultimately macroexpands into Lisp code through the quantum properties of the circuitry.
- secretGeek 20y agoyeh i do know that ;-) the last words of the article are: "(p.s. first person to write a comment that says "Paul Graham did not write reddit" deserves a lollipop.)"
- mattculbreth 20y agoHey great article dude. Really enjoyed it.
- secretGeek 20y agoyeh i do know that ;-) the last words of the article are: "(p.s. first person to write a comment that says "Paul Graham did not write reddit" deserves a lollipop.)"
- ido 20y agoGood work ruining the punch line by putting it in the heading.
- mattculbreth 20y agoNo reason for that kind of tone, we're all friends here. Besides, picking your own titles is half the fun at this.
- ido 20y agoI didn't mean for my comment to have "that kind of tone", I was just busting your balls buddy.
- mattculbreth 20y agoOk cool. Probably needed it anyway for putting the punchline in the title. :)
- timg 20y agoHah, some of those other parts were much funnier.
- erdos2 20y agoIndeed: here are two of the original functions. (defun lsb (n i) (cond ((eq n 0) i) (T (lsb (logand (- n 1) n) (+ i 1))) ) ) (defun bits (n) (lsb n 0)) CL-USER (bits #B101100101101001010101101001010101001001111) 22