Rereading Hackers and Painters by @paulg and remembering a time when web applications were novel and not obvious. Many founders in the current YC batch have no memory of box software. Some don’t remember a time before Gmail and Google Docs.
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As a LISP fan, were you exposed to LISP machines? If so, I'd be interested in your opinion (today's development environments seem somewhat crude & not well integrated compared to some 1970s LISP/Smalltalk environments, but I've never been able to get my own hands on e.g. Genera).
I used a Symbolics at one point. They were appallingly complicated. Every function had every possible option. The manuals were like the licensing docs for a nuclear plant. A shelf of binders about 5 feet long. I switched to Lucid on Suns.
