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Paul Graham is a computer programmer, essayist, and venture capitalist, born in 1964. He is a co-founder of Viaweb, which later became Yahoo Store. His writing includes essays on the programming language Lisp, being a nerd in high school, and the hypothetical programming language Blub. He has published three books, including a collection of essays titled Hackers And Painters. He is one of the creators of the startup incubator Y Combinator and the social news site Hacker News. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting in Italy. He is married to Jessica Livingston.

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25 May, 2004

Hackers And Painters

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Hackers and painters Paul GrahamGraham publishes a collection of essays that outlines the impact computer programmers have on everyday life. Part of the book focuses on education in high school and afterwards, and how students should be taught:

The most a teacher can do is suggest interesting paths — e.g. by setting interesting problems to solve, or by describing mistakes other people have made.

1995

Publishes ANSI Common Lisp

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Paul Graham ANSI LispGraham publishes a reference manual for the programming language, including a guide to optimization, macros, and an appendix on debugging.

1993

On Lisp

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Paul Graham On LispGraham publishes a study of advanced programming techniques using the language, with the theme of bottom-up programming.

Its examples form a library of functions and macros that readers will be able to use in their own Lisp programs.