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Didier Verna
Personal blog · didierverna.net/blogprogramming
Didier Verna's personal blog at didierverna.net covers programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the earlier origin of an emoji-based Lisp: a 2009 April Fools post about "Smilisp", cited in a thread about Emojilisp.
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.
Didier Verna's Computer Science Site.
What Hacker News says?
This was Didier Verna with "Smilisp": http://www.didierverna.net/blog/index.php?post/2009/04/01/%3...
Comment linking /blog/index.php?post/2009/04/01/%3Ao(-Smilisp-%3Ao)-A-new-and-revolutionary-dialect-of-Lisp
on “Emojilisp”Submitted Lisp Corner Cases: Method Combinations as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Quickref: a global documentation project for Common Lisp as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp, Jazz, Aikido – ten years later as a story · 3 points
HN discussion
