Re: what's your motivation?

[Michael Vanier <address@hidden>]

> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:21:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Paul Graham <paulgraham@yahoo.com>
> 
> I think it is impossible to become very rich designing 
> programming languages.  Supply and demand determines the 
> value of various types of work like any other commodity.  
> Designing languages is such pleasant work that people will 
> do it for free.  The way to get rich is to do something 
> that is too unpleasant or stressful for anyone to do it 
> for free (but too hard technically for big companies).
> 
> --pg
> 

Or: to design a language that makes it really easy to do something that is
too unpleasant or stressful for anyone to do it for free, and too hard
technically for big companies, in any existing language.  Then you sell the
results and pretend to be a genius ;-)

Mike