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Much to my surprise, the time I spent working on this stuff was not wasted after all. After we started Y Combinator, I would often encounter startups working on parts of this new architecture, and it was very useful to have spent so much time thinking about it and even trying to write some of it. The subset I would build as an open source project was the new Lisp, whose parentheses I now wouldn't even have to hide. A lot of Lisp hackers dream of building a new Lisp, partly because one of the distinctive features of the language is that it has dialects, and partly, I think, because we have in our minds a Platonic form of Lisp that all existing dialects fall short of. I certainly did.
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https://paulgraham.com/worked.html
定位：Essay, additional excerpt 5 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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格雷厄姆惊讶地发现，花在某个新架构上的时间没白费。创办Y Combinator后，他常遇到创业公司做这个架构的某些部分，而他曾花大量时间思考甚至试着写一些，这非常有用。他想作为开源项目构建的子集是新Lisp，现在连括号都不用藏了。很多Lisp黑客梦想造新Lisp，部分因为该语言有方言特色，部分因为他们心中有一个所有现存方言都达不到的柏拉图式Lisp。他当然也是。这说明看似无用的探索，可能在日后产生回报；追随心中理想形态本身有动力。
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格雷厄姆在创业和投资生涯中，发现早年对Lisp和新架构的钻研后来派上了用场。
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你最近花时间琢磨的“无用”想法，有没有可能在未来某个场景派上用场？
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