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Where on earth did you get the idea PG thinks libraries don't matter? I don't think I've ever seen PG say anything like that. Here's where, in fact, he says the
by emmett 14y ago
Where on earth did you get the idea PG thinks libraries don't matter? I don't think I've ever seen PG say anything like that. Here's where, in fact, he says the exact opposite:
Of course the ultimate in brevity is to have the program already written for you, and merely to call it. And this brings us to what I think will be an increasingly important feature of programming languages: library functions.
http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
In fact, read the whole section 6, on Libraries.
- michaelochurch 14y agoGreat link. I remember him saying something to the effect of libraries not mattering in his decision to use Common Lisp for Viaweb, but that's not the same thing as him saying that they're unimportant for language adoption. So I guess my memory is inaccurate. Where there is disagreement is that most CTO's are afraid to adopt "weird" languages out of library FUD, which PG asserts doesn't matter. On that, I think PG is right.