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George Pollard

Personal blog · porg.es/blogprogramminghistory

George Pollard writes george pollard, a personal blog at porg.es about programming and history. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Functional programming, APL and Unix pipes (2007)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2008–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Functional programming, APL and Unix pipes (2007)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. brudgers · 2015-07-19

    Submitted Functional programming, APL and Unix pipes (2007) as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  2. philh · 2010-05-23

    Submitted Functional programming, APL and UNIX pipes as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  3. vezzy-fnord · 2015-04-30

    Submitted Debugging Turing: An excursion with Scheme (2009) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  4. iamelgringo · 2008-01-23

    Submitted Things that other languages should take from Haskell as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. williamsmj · 2018-07-27

    Submitted History of Programming Language Topics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. nickb · 2008-06-06

    Submitted Ridiculous UTF-8 character counting (with SSE2) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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