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Edmund Horner
Personal blog · ejrh.wordpress.comprogramming
Edmund Horner writes EJRH, a personal blog at ejrh.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Namespaces in C”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Edmund Horner's blog covers preserving lost games, such as his post on Manufactoria, and what a canonical sample program should show beyond Hello World. Comments only link or quote it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Edmund Horner's projects, opinions, and other nerdy stuff
Most-linked posts?
- Namespaces in C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-02
- Beyond Hello World2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-09
What Hacker News says?
I think I just found it -- Manufactoria. Hooray! Thank you. https://ejrh.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/manufactoria/
Comment linking /2012/06/08/manufactoria/
on “Frank Gasking on preserving «lost» games”Submitted Beyond Hello World as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf Hello World is inadequate, what canonical program would better serve to demonstrate the salient features of a programming language? Must it use variables? Must it have flow control? Must it actually compute something? Must it use non-primitive data structures? Must it exhibit use of the language’s code organisation features? These are some of the more generic properties that programs can have. ... One suggestion…
Comment linking /2012/05/10/beyond-hello-world/
on “Game of Life in all languages”Submitted Namespaces in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Namespaces in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enumerating regular languages as a story · 1 points
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