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coliveira.net is a personal blog at coliveira.net about programming and career. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked comment is a Vim thread reply arguing that editors' one-big-file habits are historical; it does not discuss any coliveira.net post.
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?
- Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-08
- The Wasteful Legacy of Programming as Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-26
What Hacker News says?
I did this exercise, and to tell the truth, it works better than "normal" editors for some tasks. For example, fixing bugs from a C compilation, checking a particular line, finding some structure on file based on regular expressions. Nowadays, I use ed regularly whenever possible. I even wrote a blog post on my experiments: http://coliveira.net/software/using-ed-the-standard-unix-edi...
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on “How grep got its name”Submitted A Short Introduction to Prolog as a story · 102 points
HN discussionIt's a lie. The true reason is purely historical. Editor where just TOO SLOW to handle big files (on DOS they often were limited to 64kb, if not less) Please note that I love "modular code", hence the notion of "sections" in my big file. To clarify: I love to edit one big file, but for other purposes I definitely need small ones. What I am basically proposing is that it is easier to edit multiple files from within a…
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on “Two weeks with Vim”Submitted Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Readability Advantages of C over C++ as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good People Work Hard as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Examples of second system syndrome as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wasteful Legacy of Programming as Language as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why great programmers don’t make as much money as soccer stars? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measure Performance Before Optimizing as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is there anything new in Visual Studio 2010? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why learning Prolog can make you a better programmer (2009) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Features of C# 4.0 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What all programmers have in common as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wasteful Legacy of Programming as Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Becoming a better developer, day 4: Lean a New Programming Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When in Doubt, Create an Interface as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Git and SVN at the same time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with C++ Templates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding Singletons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much code should you write? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using meta programming whenever possible as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Give Only One Responsibility to Each Class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep a Programming Diary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Becoming a better developer, day 2: Write Shorter Methods as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The power of doing the right thing in programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Using Hash Tables a Good Thing? as a story · 2 points
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