In a nutshell, you could probably reduce it to that. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786720 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786720 > Rather than dum

In a nutshell, you could probably reduce it to that. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786720 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786720 > Rather than dumb luck, I think a more meaningful interpretation is that I was a piece of an evolving system, exploring one particular path in a damn hurry. That system contains people playing crucial parts. Academic, business, and personal philosophical and friendship agendas all transmitted an analogue of genes: ideas and concrete inventions from functional programming and Smalltalk-related languages.