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Harrison Totty

Personal blog · harrisontotty.github.io/pprogrammingsystems

Harrison Totty's personal blog at harrisontotty.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A Language Design Analysis of HolyC (2019)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its TempleOS and HolyC writing, including a constructive look at TempleOS and a language design analysis of HolyC. One commenter says these posts inspired them to try TempleOS.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. A Language Design Analysis of HolyC (2019)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Two entries stood out to me. The first is the book "UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernigan", and the second the blog post "A Constructive Look at TempleOS". That blog post [1] along with "A Language Design Analysis of HolyC" [2] inspired me to try out TempleOS for myself. I'm so glad I did, since I got hooked on developing programs in HolyC, and thus learned C in the process. There's something about building…

    Comment linking /p/a-lang-design-analysis-of-holyc

    on “The best things and stuff of 2020”
  2. Submitted A Language Design Analysis of HolyC (2019) as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Language Design Analysis of HolyC as a story · 1 points

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