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Irregularly Scheduled Programming
Personal blog · jcarroll.com.auprogrammingdata
Irregularly Scheduled Programming is a personal blog at jcarroll.com.au about programming and data. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “I Vibe Coded an R Package and it works??”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on array programming languages such as R and APL, including a 2023 comparison. The only comment is by the author, so no reader judgement of the writing appears.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- I Vibe Coded an R Package and it works??2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-13
What Hacker News says?
(author here, still getting over the first time I've seen one of my own posts on this site) The many recommendations for J here are a great nudge for me to give it a proper go. I've taken quite a liking to the traditional APL glyphs ( see a photo of the stickers on my laptop keys in this post https://jcarroll.com.au/2023/12/10/advent-of-array-elegance/ ) so I'm not looking for a way to avoid them. Another detraction…
Comment linking /2023/12/10/advent-of-array-elegance/
on “Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023)”Submitted Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023) as a story · 134 points
HN discussionSubmitted EmacsGolf (2013) as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell IS a great language for data science as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polyglot Maxxie and Minnie as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Vibe Coded an R Package and it works?? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Vibe Coded an R Package and it works?? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted These Languages Are Accumulating as a story · 2 points
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