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Learning Lisp
Personal blog · lispy.wordpress.comprogramming
Learning Lisp is a personal blog at lispy.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2007, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “How Basic Common Lisp Techniques Can Improve Code Configurability, Maintainability, and Reuse”. The last post was in 2008, but the archive is still widely read.
(notes from an average programmer studying the hard stuff)
Most-linked posts?
- How Basic Common Lisp Techniques Can Improve Code Configurability, Maintainability, and Reuse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-08-30
- Reading On Lisp: Then and Now2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-12-28
- How to Deploy Your Skunkworks Application2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-19
What Hacker News says?
Here is a mediocre lisper and an advanced lisper's take on the question (edit: and also another lisper's take, too): http://lispy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/my-solution-to-the-rou...
Comment linking /2007/11/02/my-solution-to-the-rounding-up-to-the-nearst-power-of-two/
on “How many Java programmers does it take to round up to a power of two?”Submitted Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits? as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get the Most Out of Your Eccentric Programmer/Genius as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading On Lisp: Then and Now as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced Codemunging: How SICP, Emacs, and Lisp Change Your Day Job Performance as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp Isn’t Really a Programming Language as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why UML Fails to Add Value to the Design and Development Process as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Now What? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Distracted Developer: Tactics and Workarounds for a Fast Paced Scene as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Popularity of Unit Testing is Waning as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Basic Common Lisp Techniques Can Improve Code Configurability, Maintainability, and Reuse as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading On Lisp: Then and Now... as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closures + Lambda = The key to OOP in Lisp as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp closures as much as OOP as you'll need (?) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp50 Notes part I: JonL Recalls How Sussman Revealed the Nature of Intelligence… as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey… You forgot to tell us how to get the most out of this guy as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deploy Your Skunkworks Application as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Grab Bag of Intermediate Perl Regex Tricks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp50 notes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Comp Sci Grads Can't Hack (and why you need them anyway) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meet the New Problem... Same as the old Problem as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boilerplate code says a lot about a language... as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Studying SICP Made Me a Better Programmer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Notes on Anonymous Functions in Perl as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Lisp Techniques Can Improve Code Configurability, Maintainability, and Reuse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted SICP can wait… I’m taking on PAIP – Learning Lisp as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Basic Lisp Techniques Can Improve Configurability, Maintainability, and Reuse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Model-View-Controller Considered Harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Better Mapcro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quick and Dirty Look at Exploratory Programming in Common Lisp as a story · 2 points
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