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Jisang Yoo
Personal blog · yoo2080.wordpress.comprogramming
Jisang Yoo writes Yoo Box, a personal blog at yoo2080.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How to Read Lisp Code”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts on Emacs Lisp and lexical scoping, and on the claim that clear code is not hard to read. One commenter calls the lexical scoping post highly recommended reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mostly Emacs, Python, and math. By Jisang Yoo
Most-linked posts?
- How to Read Lisp Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-06
What Hacker News says?
That's not what it looks like to me https://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/it-is-not-hard-to-r...
Comment linking /2014/07/04/it-is-not-hard-to-read-lisp-code/
on “Clear is better than clever [pdf]”Submitted It is not hard to edit Lisp code as a story · 35 points
HN discussion(eval form t) enables lexical scoping for form. http://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/lexical-scoping-and-... is highly recommended reading btw.
Comment linking /2011/12/31/lexical-scoping-and-dynamic-scoping-in-emacs-lisp/
on “GNU Emacs 24.1 released”Submitted How to Read Lisp Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussion