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Brandon Byars
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Brandon Byars's personal blog at brandonbyars.com covers programming. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “How Lisp macros differ from static code-generation and metaprogramming”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked for a 2008 post, 'Beating Sapir-Whorf', arguing about how programming languages relate to thought, cited alongside Matz's Ruby talk in a thread on linguistic relativity.
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Most-linked posts?
- How Lisp macros differ from static code-generation and metaprogramming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-26
What Hacker News says?
Precisely the arguments of many posts about programming: * http://brandonbyars.com/2008/05/13/beating-sapir-whorf/ * The creator of ruby on the "The power and philosophy of ruby: or how to create Babel-17" [1][2][3] However these usually imply the weak version of Sapir Whorf, not the strong one. [1] http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2003/mgp00001.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#cit…
Comment linking /2008/05/13/beating-sapir-whorf/
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