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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 24 posts.
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How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler?
Recently I was discussing Converge with someone, and mentioned how little time the core compiler had taken to implement (no compile-time meta-programming, limited error checking, but a functioning compiler nonetheless) - only a few days. The chap I was talking to looked at me and told me that he didn’t believe me. I…
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SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book
I've completed the SICP reading project, which I began on June 19th, 2007 . In hindsight, it seems like a very long time (almost a year!), during which this was my main hacking project at home. So, in this conclusion I want to examine my progress, and compare the result with my initial goals.
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This is the page that made doing OOP in Javascript click for me.
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language . Some believe that it lacks the property of information hiding because objects cannot have private instance variables and methods. But this is a misunderstanding. JavaScript objects can have private members. Here's how.
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Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer
A rant about how annoying programming in C# is, really.
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Let's talk about Python 3.0
There's an old joke, so old that I don't even know for certain where it originated, that's often used to …
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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)
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The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner
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Why Python Programmers Should Learn Python
A Word Aligned article posted 2007-07-01, tagged Python, Java, Puzzles.
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Ruby's not ready
A controversial evaluation of the programming language Ruby, version 1.8.
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Lisper's take on Arc
The nerdosphere is abuzz about Arc , Paul Graham's long-awaited new dialect of Lisp, so I figured I might as well pile on. For the benef...
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Understanding Ruby Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
Robert leads large and complex firms through mission-critical Digital Transformations with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Engineering. As a Presidential Innovation Fellow at Barack Obama's White House , Robert reformed digital services across the Federal Government, resulting in millions of veterans…
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