Paul became incredibly successful. I wonder what he thinks his own bus ticket was?
Going deep on a topic seems like great advice with kids, and I wish schools allowed for more of it.
Going deep on a topic seems like great advice with kids, and I wish schools allowed for more of it.
He designed the Arc language before he started ycombinator. He designed the Bel language after he left ycombinator. So it seems like ycombinator (and changing an entire industry) was an interlude between Lisps :)
If you had to rate obsessions on a scale from 0-100 on how likely they are to be useful, I would rate programming languages around a 5/100. It's exceedingly unlikely to come to anything (which I know from working on my own language :) )
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