What can be said of Paul Graham? Is he a mere Entrepreneur or a worthy and effectual amalgamation of an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer? At best, according to the general consideration, he can be called as multifarious personality engaged in wide ranging activities, among which Entrepreneurship happens to be the chief component. He was born in England at Weymouth in the year 1964. From his childhood he had an interest towards the discipline of Science and Technology and it this zeal that has established him as an efficient and well-known Lisp programmer, venture capitalist and prolific essayist. By virtue of his educational qualification Graham is B.A. degree holder in the discipline of Philosophy from the Cornell Unversity. He also became instrumental in earning an M.S. and a Ph.D. in the Applied Sciences, with a specialization in the stream of computer science from the renowned Harvard University in the year 1988 and 1990 in consequent manner and even studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle in Floorence.
It was in the year 1995 when in conjunction with Robert Morris Paul Graham intiated the Viaweb, known as the first application service provider in the international arena. Viaweb was designed in that manner that by virtue of its software enabled the common users with its software that was written largely in Common Lisp with making their own Internet stores. Afetr a time period of three years of getting hold of the market scenario by storm in the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to the Yahoo! In lieu for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million. It is from then that he commenced a new approach through the writing of essays for his crowd-pleaser website paulgraham.com. the subjects vary over wide range of perspectives that include 'Beating the Averages' that has been found as enough proicient in the comparison of Lisp to the other programming languages to subjects like 'Why Nerds are Unpopular', a hardcore discussion of nerd life in high school.
He is at present also working on Arc, a new Lisp dialect. This has ben discussed in his essay The Hundred-Year Language among others. It is as part of his work on Arc, he initiated the development of an email client and decided that it needed a good spam filter.
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