PROG LANG QUESTIONNAIRE

0. What programming languages do you intimately know?
1. What are your preferred paradigms?
2. What software dev 'habits' piss you off?
3. Choose: Emacs, Vim, or <crap>?

>>30
That's the Paul Graham school of programming.

If you're a Paul Graham programmer, it's cheaper to rewrite the code after you leave than try to figure out what you wrote.

Viaweb and Reddit are commonly cited examples.

This is analogous to tearing down a house and building a new one because the original is such a mess that cleaning and fixing it would cost more.