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imagine27
Personal blog · imagine27.com · on HN as jgrant27programmingphilosophymath
imagine27 is a personal blog at imagine27.com about programming, philosophy and math. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Go is Korean, Lisp is Japanese”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Imagine27 is a blog with Clojure-related posts, including an opinion piece titled 'Clojure is the false lisp' and an OpenGL molecule viewer. HN readers link it for its Clojure writing.
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.
math by day, philosophy by night
Most-linked posts?
- Go is Korean, Lisp is Japanese2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-06
What Hacker News says?
It's just not true. Ryzen laptops have been available for months for a fraction of the price of a macbook that are just as impressive. https://imagine27.com/rise-of-the-mac-serial-killers
Comment linking /rise-of-the-mac-serial-killers
on “M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness”Submitted Live Lisp coding as art as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI wrote Pong in Clojure back in 2009 in <200 lines. https://imagine27.com/pong_in_clojure
Comment linking /pong_in_clojure
on “Tetris in ClojureScript”Submitted I want to believe (in Lisp vs C performance) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionA Ruby subset in Common Lisp (circa 2010) https://imagine27.com/ruby_subset_implementation
Comment linking /ruby_subset_implementation
on “Forth Lisp Python Continuum: A small highly-dynamic self-bootstrapping language”Submitted The Rise of the MacBook Pro Serial Killers as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttps://imagine27.com/error-handling-or-the-emporors-old-clo...
Comment linking /error-handling-or-the-emporors-old-clothes
on “Restarts in Common Lisp”Submitted Go is Korean, Lisp is Japanese as a story · 5 points
HN discussionEven better is his rant "Clojure is the false lisp ", http://imagine27.com/articles/2009-08-19-011225_clojure_the_... . It's great that he's taken time to actually learn Clojure and see how nice some of the libraries are. With Penumbra (thanks to Zachary Tellman) your OpenGL code looks downright beautiful.
Comment linking /articles/2009-08-19-011225_clojure_the_false_lisp.html
on “OpenGL molecule viewer in Clojure”Submitted Lesser Known Origins of the Technical Interview as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualization of SBCL Development History [video] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go is Korean, Lisp is Japanese as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pong in Clojure (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Error Handling or the Emperor's Old Clothes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A followup to "I want to believe in (in Lisp vs. C performance)", and a challenge ... as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp50 @ OOPSLA 2008 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Golden 20s as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagine27 as a story · 1 points
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