Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
"How to Make Wealth" http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html, May 2004
“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.”
Re: In praise of Java. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/f0f59b2b18124881 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, C++
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