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A Curious Programmer
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A Curious Programmer is a personal blog at curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on pattern matching in Scheme, cited in a discussion of SICP. The one comment points to it as one of several pattern-matching approaches.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on Perl and Emacs, technology and writing
What Hacker News says?
It's possible to do pattern matching in Scheme, though it's not standardized (AFAIK). Here are some approaches: https://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/pattern-m... http://www.javaist.com/blog/2008/11/12/pattern-matching-in-s... http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/3/pmatch http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/3/Pattern%20matching.html http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/match-ifl-full.pdf http://download.plt-scheme.org/d…
Comment linking /2006/12/08/pattern-matching-in-scheme/
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