"Paul Graham himself was completely written in lisp"

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Indeed: here are two of the original functions.

(defun lsb (n i) (cond ((eq n 0) i) (T (lsb (logand (- n 1) n) (+ i 1))) ) )

(defun bits (n) (lsb n 0))

CL-USER (bits #B101100101101001010101101001010101001001111)

Good work ruining the punch line by putting it in the heading.

No reason for that kind of tone, we're all friends here. Besides, picking your own titles is half the fun at this.

I didn't mean for my comment to have "that kind of tone", I was just busting your balls buddy.

Ok cool. Probably needed it anyway for putting the punchline in the title. :)

Hah, some of those other parts were much funnier.

I wonder if the author knows he didn't write reddit.

He does, yes. The comments are good in this thing too, pretty funny.

Actually Lisp is so powerful that PG wrote an entire universe on the back of his napkin, out of which another PG has evolved who funded the reddit founders who first wrote reddit in Lisp, and later re-wrote it in what looked like python, but ultimately macroexpands into Lisp code through the quantum properties of the circuitry.

yeh i do know that ;-)

the last words of the article are: "(p.s. first person to write a comment that says "Paul Graham did not write reddit" deserves a lollipop.)"

Hey great article dude. Really enjoyed it.

yeh i do know that ;-)

the last words of the article are: "(p.s. first person to write a comment that says "Paul Graham did not write reddit" deserves a lollipop.)"

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