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Languages and Logic

Personal blog · blog.samibadawi.comprogramming

Languages and Logic is a personal blog at blog.samibadawi.com about programming. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Lisp Prolog and Evolution”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-09, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
8HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a Clojure thread as a source on how Lisp relates to the languages that borrowed from it, under the heading of language evolution and Prolog. Cited only, not praised.

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?

  1. Lisp Prolog and Evolution
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. GigaMos · 2015-10-12
    because "LISP can learn a lesson from all the languages that borrowed ideas from LISP. It is nature's way." from http://blog.samibadawi.com/2013/05/lisp-prolog-and-evolution...

    Comment linking /2013/05/lisp-prolog-and-evolution.html

    on “Clojure: If Lisp is so great, why do we keep needing new variants?”
  2. dhkl · 2013-05-21

    Submitted Lisp Prolog and Evolution as a story · 69 points

    HN discussion
  3. ColinWright · 2013-05-29

    Submitted AI Computer Vision: Scala vs. Haskell vs. Python as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. type-lambda · 2020-03-21

    Submitted Haskell IDE 2020 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. type-lambda · 2020-02-23

    Submitted Haskell and Hadoop the Aftermath as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. type-lambda · 2019-09-11

    Submitted Typed Functional Languages 2019 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. fnordsensei · 2016-03-23

    Submitted Static vs. Dynamic Functional Languages as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. fogus · 2011-07-12

    Submitted Natural language processing in Python, F#, and Scala as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. type-lambda · 2026-01-26

    Submitted Competitive Pure Functional Languages as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. type-lambda · 2019-02-10

    Submitted VM, Lambda, Kubernetes and Terraform Best Practice as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. ghosthamlet · 2018-05-22

    Submitted Lisp Prolog and Evolution as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. type-lambda · 2026-08-09

    Submitted Self Hosting Coding LLMs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. type-lambda · 2020-04-10

    Submitted Many Languages Should You Program In as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. type-lambda · 2019-02-09

    Submitted ML and Data in AWS, Azure and GCP as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. ghosthamlet · 2018-05-22

    Submitted Practical Scala, Haskell and Category Theory (2015) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. type-lambda · 2019-10-21

    Submitted F# vs. Scala as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. bahmait · 2013-04-05

    Submitted Akka vs. Finagle vs. Storm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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