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"While I, too, fell under the spell of Paul Graham, I refuse to drink any more of his kool aide until he comes out with his magic language he's been promising u
by Rod 17y ago
"While I, too, fell under the spell of Paul Graham, I refuse to drink any more of his kool aide until he comes out with his magic language he's been promising us for the last half decade or more. Yes, interpreted languages with compilers and fancy debuggers are great. That doesn't mean it has to have a bunch of parenthesis, or that you should waste your life with horrible crap like Common Lisp. "
I have the impression that this kind of comment will make some people's blood boil...
- TriinT 17y agoAnd I am certain this comment will make some people's blood boil even faster: "If you want to start your own company, you don't even really need an idea, as long as you can do stuff. I have done so myself (and am pretty happy doing it). YC is, of course, almost completely retarded; anyone with a job and a bit of ingenuity can provide a deeper pool of funding than that, and the "connections" are worth zilch, based on their track record. Just save some money."