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My Point of View
Personal blog · mpov.timmorgan.orgprogramming
My Point of View is a personal blog at mpov.timmorgan.org about programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “I Built a Lisp Compiler”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on the 1993 paper on the evolution of Lisp. The only comment is a question about replacing a Lisp interpreter with a compiler and does not discuss the post itself.
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?
- I Built a Lisp Compiler3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Do you imagine it to be especially hard or impossible to replace an interpreter with a compiler instead of implementing a compiler from scratch? It makes it harder to have decided on the language design rather than inventing it in parallel? From an interpreted Lisp system to a compiler it's mostly a slog of studying compilers and assembly (or machine code) and possibly translating the interpreter, which you can use…
Comment linking /i-built-a-lisp-compiler/
on “The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]”Submitted I Built a Lisp Compiler as a story · 354 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built a Ruby Parser as a story · 150 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built a Ruby Compiler as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built a Lisp Compiler as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Clipboard History Script for Sway as a story · 1 points
HN discussion