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Marc-André Cournoyer
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Marc-André Cournoyer's personal blog at macournoyer.wordpress.com covers programming. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Ruby on V8”. The last post was in 2008, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in a thread titled 'How to Pick a Language', discusses JavaScript's design and its DOM problems. The linked posts appear to be about choosing programming languages.
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.
My software passion spreading place
Most-linked posts?
- Ruby on V82 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-09-03
What Hacker News says?
Javascript is a bit of an enigma. Usually, bad languages are made better (or at least tolerable) by the existence of good libraries (see C++, Perl). In the case of Javascript, it's a really elegant language made worse by being so often so dependent on the DOM and all of it's obscurities. I admire Javascript because it covers so many paradigms, and yet is, at the core, very simple and straightforward. Much as Lisp is…
Comment linking /2008/09/02/ruby-on-v8/
on “How to Pick a Language”Submitted Ruby on V8 as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incremental Perfectionism: 5 Ways to Write Perfect Code as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Tutorial for Subversion "morons" as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you stare at this code long enough, you might see something. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby to C, a couple snippets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Gravatar Caching Plugin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted RefactorMyCode.com Launched to help clean up your code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Flexible Thin Anorexic Gymnast that Democratized Deployment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Difference between include and extend in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
