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Emily Bache
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Emily Bache writes Coding Is Like Cooking, a personal blog at coding-is-like-cooking.info about programming and career. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “An introduction to Array Languages”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Emily Bache's post introduces the K array programming language and Arthur Whitney's work with it. HN readers link it for its picture of array languages and for an account of building a 1K text editor.
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.
by Emily Bache
Most-linked posts?
- An introduction to Array Languages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-06
What Hacker News says?
http://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2013/09/an-introduction-t... . Thanks, I enjoyed that article. It gives a vivid picture of the gap between the array languages niche and mainstream programming culture.
Comment linking /2013/09/an-introduction-t..
on “K, by Arthur Whitney (2005)”Submitted An introduction to Array Languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor a real eye opener compare the length of these K versions of the Alioth benchmarks to their more verbose brethren http://kparc.com/$/z/comp.k . I found these on the K OS project page - http://kparc.com/os.htm . There's a great description of Arthur Whitney building a Notepad like text editor (1K) in 30 minutes or so using this system here - http://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2013/09/an-introduction-t... . Persona…
Comment linking /2013/09/an-introduction-to-array-languages/
on “K, by Arthur Whitney (2005)”Submitted How can teams collaborate without Pull Requests? as a story · 1 points
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