Goddamnit Paul Graham [IHBT]

http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html

Presumably many libraries will be for domains that don't even exist yet. If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course they are sufficiently advanced that they already communicate in XML.

Good one, Paul Graham. You had me fooled for a good while there.

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regardless of the magical land of TM's any language can be coded to interpret itself, so graham's statement is still stupid.

Also you seem to agree with me in your next part, my comment NAND gate comment was saying precisely that Graham's idea that the fewer "axioms" a language the better it is, is absurd.  The only redeeming part of his essays is that reading between the lines you see how deep and disturbing this man's obsession with LISP is.  A great programmer is above any language,paradigm or religion and is able to keep an open and objective mind when evaluating them.  It's ironic that Graham keeps going on about the freedom and power that lisp gives the programmer, when Graham's biggest problem is his inability to think outside the lisp box.