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Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004).<p>In 1995 Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first application service provider. Viaweb's software (written largely in Common Lisp) let users make their own Internet stores. In the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million. [2] At Yahoo! the product became Yahoo! Store.<p>He has since begun writing essays for his popular website paulgraham.com. They range from "Beating the Averages", which compares Lisp to other programming languages, to "Why Nerds are Unpopular", a discussion of nerd life in high school. A collection of his essays has been published as Hackers and Painters (ISBN 0-596-00662-4) by O'Reilly.<p>He is also working on Arc, a new Lisp dialect. It is discussed in his essay The Hundred-Year Language, among others. As part of...
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