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Paul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves. Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.
by Xichekolas 19y ago
Paul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves.
Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.
- iamwil 19y agoSounds like we should have a Paul Graham Facts, like Chuck Norris. Paul Graham's so smart that inside his brain is another brain. Paul Graham once matched /(x+x+)+y/ in logarithmic time.
- dfranke 19y agoAll lambda expressions terminate in logarithmic time when evaluated in Paul Graham order.
- rms 19y agoPaul Graham is a general algorithm to solve the halting program.
- neilc 19y agoPaul Graham can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time.
- yinzhen 19y agoPaul Graham's brain is a nondeterministic Turing-machine.
- riffraff 19y agoNP-complete problems are for sissies. Paul Graham can solve any problem in the Arithmetic Hierarchy in O(1).
- MasterOfLambdas 19y agoMatematicians searching for P=NP or P!=NP proof should wait until Paul Graham decides which of these statements is true.
- icey 19y agoIt's a little known fact that the P in P=NP actually stands for Paul Graham.
- ptn 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, his keyboard only has three keys: 0, 1 and Return. No Backspace, because he doesn't make mistakes.
- eru 19y agoThree keys are redundant. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ajwatson/cat-powered.gif http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ajwatson/cat-powered.gif
- eru 19y agoAnything but the Church Numerals is below him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_numeral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_numeral
- gensym 19y agoPaul Graham can derive S from K
- ptn 19y agoHere's Paul while hacking: http://www.voguehost.com/ims/u/ptn/ptn/pg_hacking.gif http://www.voguehost.com/ims/u/ptn/ptn/pg_hacking.gif
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- breck 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he yelled at the hackernews server and it fixed itself.
- eru 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he does not recurse. He uses the y combinator - in Continuation Passing Style - with both hands tied behind his back.
- eru 19y agoWhat's so bad about the y combinator?