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Antti H.
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Antti H.'s personal blog at anttih.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “JSON interpreter in Io”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on how Lisp macros differ from static code generation and metaprogramming. One comment uses it to discuss macros outside Lisp, such as Mirah and CoffeeScript efforts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- JSON interpreter in Io2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-09
What Hacker News says?
A couple points on the metaprogramming space (these aren't about the article, but the article reminded me of them): 1. Macros aren't unique to lisp. They're most developed and used in the lisp family, but you don't need to have a homoiconic language to have macros. The Mirah programming language--statically typed Ruby on the JVM--has non-hygenic macros, I know there's been a number of efforts to add macros to coffee…
Comment linking /blog/2010/10/29/json-in-io.html
on “How Lisp macros differ from static code-generation and metaprogramming”Submitted Promise is the wrong abstraction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON interpreter in Io as a story · 2 points
HN discussion