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.
And I await your self-hosting befunge compiler ;)
, when Graham's biggest problem is his inability to think outside the lisp box.
I think his view is more that Lisp makes the box that much bigger, indeed, it is as large as you want it. If you ask lisp programmers, "what is the killer feature of lisp?", it's macros. And what do macros let you do? Casually redefine the syntax of the language to suit your needs. To quote Guy L. Steele Jr. "If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases."