Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
The author examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, Internet startups and more. He also tells important stories about the kinds of people behind technical innovations, revealing their character and their craft.
Paul Graham is the designer of the Arc language. He most recently worked for Yahoo. Before that he was president of Viaweb, which became Yahoo Store when Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993) and ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), now the standard college text. He has worked as a consultant to the US Department of Energy, DuPont, and Interleaf. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780596006624 |
| ISBN 10 | 0596006624 |
| Title | Hackers and Painters |
| Author | Paul Graham |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | O'Reilly Media |
| Year published | 2004-06-22 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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