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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And if you show a Lisp programmer a language with an extensive standard library and convenient syntactic abstractions, designed to make common tasks simple and maintainable code feel natural to write, he'll ask "What's the big deal with this, you could already do all that in BlubLISP."