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Daniil Baturin

Personal blog · blog.baturin.orgprogrammingsystems

Daniil Baturin's personal blog at blog.baturin.org covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Introduction to OCaml”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for its introduction to functional programming in OCaml. One commenter shares a genealogy diagram from the site showing the history of OCaml and the ML language family.

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?

  1. Introduction to OCaml
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is a brief history of OCaml and ML family https://blog.baturin.org/images/fp_genealogy.png

    Comment linking /images/fp_genealogy.png

    on “Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml”
  2. Submitted Introduction to OCaml as a story · 229 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Extending OCaml Programs with Lua as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Introduction to OCaml as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Introduction to OCaml, part 4: higher order functions and algebraic data types as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Hello from a compiler-free x86-64 world as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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