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(This is based on a talk I gave at the Oxford Union.) Since this is apparently the future prime ministers' club, I'm going to tell you about something it would be good if more politicians understood: I'm going to tell y…
1993 (This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp .) Arc 's name.--> It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the functional elements of a program should not be too large. If some component of a progr…
Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it fixes. The surprising thing is how many, and how well, languages can be described this way. Algol…
There is a kind of mania for object-oriented programming at the moment, but some of the smartest programmers I know are some of the least excited about it. My own feeling is that object-oriented programming is a useful…
Paul Graham, the Founder of Y Combinator, speaks live from Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paul Graham, the Founder of Y Combinator, speaks live from Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm, Sweden. He covers two topics -- if you should you go to Silicon Valle…
How do you convert between wealth and income tax? If a government imposes a wealth tax of 1%, what's the equivalent in income tax? It's clear from the way most politicians talk about the subject that they not only don't…
In the early 1970s, disaster struck the Swiss watch industry. Now people call it the quartz crisis, but in fact it was a compound of three separate disasters that all happened at about the same time. The first was compe…