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Life of a Computer Scientist
Personal blog · lifecs.likai.orgsystemsprogramming
Life of a Computer Scientist is a personal blog at lifecs.likai.org about systems and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN as an example of using Perl flags to get awk- and sed-like behaviour. The post is a 2008 piece on using Perl like awk and sed.
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.
Significant research starts with a humble beginning.
What Hacker News says?
It actually does (to an extent). There are BEGIN and END blocks (not used that much in regular scripting but they exist). There are also a bunch of perl command flags that can make things more awk-ish or sed-ish. This random blog post gives something of the flavor. https://lifecs.likai.org/2008/10/using-perl-like-awk-and-sed...
Comment linking /2008/10/using-perl-like-awk-and-sed.html
on “The State of the Awk (2020)”Submitted Contiki protothreads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parallel computing and the cost of TLB shoot-down as a story · 1 points
HN discussion