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Alaska Ataca a Kamtchatka
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Alaska Ataca a Kamtchatka is a personal blog at alaska-kamtchatka.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “(Dis)Functional Bowling (FP/TDD debate)”. The last post was in 2012, 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 its posts comparing approaches to calculating bowling scores, such as an OCaml version with no tests and a Clojure version with unit tests.
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.
A collection of musings, in the style of Edsger Dijkstra"s celebrated EWDs.
Most-linked posts?
- (Dis)Functional Bowling (FP/TDD debate)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-21
What Hacker News says?
If you enjoyed seeing the contrast in approaches between Norvig and Jeffries, you may also find the following interesting -- calculating bowling scores in 1. OCaml, no tests: http://alaska-kamtchatka.blogspot.com/2009/07/disfunctional-... 2. Clojure with unit tests: http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/07/19/uncle-bob-j... </amazon>
Comment linking /2009/07/disfunctional-bowling.html
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