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Fabian Dablander
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Fabian Dablander's personal blog at fabiandablander.com covers data and science. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on teaching beginners to program functionally. The only comment argues against its functional-first examples, so the linked writing is valued here mainly as a point of debate.
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.
Postdoc Behavioural Data Science & Sustainability
What Hacker News says?
Oh god, all those functional examples w/ the Fibonacci function are malpractice. This was a big fight in the early 1980s because people who liked languages like Lisp and Logo were really pissed because Microsoft BASIC was everywhere. The old way iterative we did it in BASIC or FORTRAN was better. Back in the 1980s the best "functional" examples involved drawing fractals, something that could drive you crazy if you t…
Comment linking /r/Fibonacci.html
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