Paul Graham

Paul Graham

English programmer, essayist and venture capitalist. Known for his work on Lisp. Co-founded Viaweb (which eventually became Yahoo! Store) and the Y Combinator seed capital firm. Publishes essays on paulgraham.com and is author of some programming books, such as: On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters.

The object-oriented model

The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.

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