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lair of the dustbunny
Personal blog · dustbunnylair.blogspot.comprogramming
lair of the dustbunny is a personal blog at dustbunnylair.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts concern the author's book Higher-Order Perl, which is offered as a free download. The commenter lists versions of its examples translated into JavaScript, Ruby, Python and Go.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Some of those other languages with translated examples: JavaScript: http://interglacial.com/hoj/hoj.html Ruby: http://graysoftinc.com/higher-order-ruby Python: http://dustbunnylair.blogspot.com/2009/01/higher-order-perl-... Go: http://higherordergo.blogspot.com/
Comment linking /2009/01/higher-order-perl-python-style-toc.html
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