Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age: Essays on the Art of Programming

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age: Essays on the Art of Programming

by PaulGraham (Author)

Synopsis

In most fields the great work is done early on. The paintings made between 1430 and 1500 are still unsurpassed. Shakespeare appeared just as professional theater was being born, and pushed the medium so far that every playwright since has had to live in his shadow. Albrecht Durer did the same thing with engraving, and Jane Austen with the novel.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 271
Edition: 1
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 18 May 2004

ISBN 10: 0596006624
ISBN 13: 9780596006624

Author Bio
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.