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Arnold Robbins
Personal blog · skeeve.comprogrammingsystems
Arnold Robbins's personal blog at skeeve.com covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for Arnold Robbins's writing on awk and systems programming, especially "AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited". Comments mostly cite it as a see-also or reference for gawk.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-04-16
- Fork My Code, Please (2014)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-27
- Fork My Code, Please (2012)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-27
What Hacker News says?
I don't agree with everything here. Open source really does mean that you just have all the code to rebuild the thing from scratch under the right sort of license. Open source doesn't mean anything else, like having access to design decisions. Interaction style and personalities are also not part of the definition of open source; open source doesn't mean nobody is brusque or abrasive. Some communities have additiona…
Comment linking /fork-my-code.html
on “Why I’m Leaving Elm”Submitted Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018) as a story · 215 points
HN discussiongawk is pretty much everywhere now that awk sees substantial use, and presents rather great enhancements over POSIX awk[1]. I usually don't think that GNU tools make much sense to focus on, but gawk is something that's, generally-speaking, worth doing so. Especially given that it runs on almost everywhere under the sun. [1] http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
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on “Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners”Submitted Awk as a major systems programming language, revisited (2018) as a story · 116 points
HN discussionAR = Arnold Robbins, http://www.skeeve.com/
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on “Where grep came from [video]”Submitted Fork My Code, Please (2012) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSee http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
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on “GNU Awk 5.0”Submitted Awk as a Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe thread is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2022-04/msg00025... There is more around it. I had the idea in two other forms. Initially I had a @param:<ident> syntax which indicated that the given variable is to be allocated in the parameter space (a local variable frame where function parameters go). This only worked inside functions. Between that and @let was a @local thing. The maintainer of GNU…
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on “The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make”Submitted Fork My Code, Please as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis was linked from "The State of the Awk (2020)" on the front page earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34438560 See also "AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited" also linked from that article: http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
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on “A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2017)”Submitted Fork My Code, Please (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fork My Code, Please (2014) as a story · 1 points
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