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Adam Wespiser
Personal blog · wespiser.com/postsaiprogrammingsystems
Adam Wespiser writes Wespiser, a personal blog at wespiser.com about ai, programming and systems. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Write You a Scheme, Version 2”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Adam Wespiser's "Write You A Scheme, Version 2", a tutorial on building a production-ready Scheme implementation in Haskell, as a practical guide to writing a language implementation.
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Adam Wespiser writes about software engineering, systems, programming languages, machine learning, and statistics.
Most-linked posts?
- Write You a Scheme, Version 23 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-28
- Write You a Scheme, Version 2.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-05
- /writings/wyas/home.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-16
What Hacker News says?
Write You A Scheme, Version 2. https://www.wespiser.com/writings/wyas/home.html . A tutorial on how to write a production ready implementation of scheme using Haskell. Contributors welcome
Comment linking /writings/wyas/home.html
on “Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?”Submitted Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is readable and interesting - https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/3imp.pdf Dybvig's dissertation (he wrote chez scheme) it's easy to follow. IMHO, it's a lot easier to write compilers in Haskell or ocaml, for a bunch of reasons. you might take a look at https://wespiser.com/writings/wyas/00_overview.html which walks through writing a scheme implementation in Haskell. Do what's fun. I think both of those a…
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on “The Little Typer (2018)”Submitted The more AI I used, the worse my code got as a story · 5 points
HN discussionthere is a v2.0 version of this here, it may still be a WIP: https://www.wespiser.com/writings/wyas/home.html
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on “Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007)”Submitted Lessons Learned from a Year of Haskell as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write You a Scheme, Version 2.0 as a story · 5 points
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