By any measure @paulg has been wildly successful: Viaweb, HN, and of course YCombinator itself.
He influenced a generation of founders to build generational companies. Airbnb today, but also Dropbox, Stripe, Cruise, and so many others.
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I wrote a tweet about the failure of
@ztellman’s silly essay. Here it is: no one cares about Arc, but that’s the least important piece of Graham’s oeuvre. It’s like fixating on the free throws Jordan missed. Now, why not try making a shot yourself?https://twitter.com/ztellman/status/1335658874091630592 …balajis.com added,
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Nice of you to say, but one thing that seems to have been missed here is that Bel is in effect the final form of Arc, and was "written in itself" in it.
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I realize it sounds like a contradiction to say that B was written in itself in A if A ≠ B, but by a collection of egregious hacks I made this close enough to true, and indeed that was a big part of the work.
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I only skimmed the essay, but if he didn't grasp the connection between Arc and Bel, he missed at least that point completely.
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@paulg any plans to show Bel to the world? It would be fun to play around with!1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
It's right here, but it's a language written in itself in the sense the Lisp in the JMC's original paper was. I.e. really a spec rather than an implementation (though I do have a sort of implementation I used to test it). http://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html
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