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Asher Mancinelli
Personal blog · ashermancinelli.com/csblogprogramming
Asher Mancinelli writes About, a personal blog at ashermancinelli.com about programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Posts about designing an ideal array programming language, with code examples. The one comment discusses those examples, noting a code-golf version and performance tricks, without judging the writing itself.
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Well, do you know how it works? Don't judge a book by its cover and all. Although none of these are entirely aiming for elegance. The first is code golf and the other two have some performance hacks that I doubt are even good any more, but replacing ∧≢⥊ with ∧⌜ in the last gets you something decent (personally I'm more in the "utilitarian code is never art" camp, but I'd have no reason to direct that at any specific…
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on “My Ideal Array Language”Submitted My Ideal Array Language as a story · 148 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Problem, Four Languages, Two Paradigms (2021) as a story · 1 points
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