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Geoff Wozniak
Personal blog · exploring-lisp.blogspot.comprogramming
Geoff Wozniak writes exploring, a personal blog at exploring-lisp.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment discusses Interlisp ideas such as Loop, Paredit structured editing, and pervasive undo, not the blog's writing. The linked posts seem to cover Lisp topics.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Loop, like structured editing (Paredit), is one of those Interlisp things that's very controversial and divisive. There's tons of really wild ideas in Interlisp that seemed to be the half-baked acid trip ideas of West Coast hippies at the time, that are just starting to become rediscovered in the past couple of years (pervasive undo -> reversible debugging, DWIM-like autosuggestions in more places), and even the imp…
Comment linking /2008/01/auto-defining-functions.html)
on “Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)”Submitted Geoff Wozniak: Tinkering with jump tables as a story · 8 points
HN discussion- eb · 2008-02-20
Submitted Exploring Lisp: Continuing and restarts as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted A Lisper's initial experience with Java as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
