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Nick Sieger
Personal blog · blog.nicksieger.comprogramming
Nick Sieger's personal blog at blog.nicksieger.com covers programming. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links posts by Nick Sieger on Python's history in scientific computing and on a 'Jazzers and Programmers' essay. Commenters only cite or link them and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-06
- Jazzers and Programmers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-22
What Hacker News says?
>So I wonder, was it easier to write C/C++ or fortran compiled extensions in python than it was in ruby? Don't know about technical aspects of "easier" but it may have simply been an accident of history. E.g. in 1995 (before Ruby 1.0 December 1996[0]), David Beazley was already wrapping C Language code to Python. Deep link to presentation: https://youtu.be/riuyDEHxeEo?t=52m27s So DB's Python code for scientific code…
Comment linking /articles/2006/10/20/rubyconf-history-of-ruby/
on “The counterintuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)”Submitted Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript as a story · 56 points
HN discussionRuby might just need a better implementation with more time spent on optimization. http://maglev.gemstone.com/ is going in this direction. But also, Lua was always designed with cleanness and simplicity of implementation in mind. Its developers have strong backgrounds in both theory and engineering, which you can see in their interview in the book Masterminds of Programming . They've been very conservative about the…
Comment linking /articles/2006/10/27/visualization-of-rubys-grammar
on “Love for LuaJIT”Submitted Why DTrace Makes Leopard a Must-Have Upgrade as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPossibly http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/10/27/visualization... . A comment links to http://flickr.com/photos/nicksieger/281055485/
Comment linking /articles/2006/10/27/visualization-of-rubys-grammar/
on “Is Python the Future of Programming?”Submitted Obscure and Ugly Perlisms in Ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's the 'Jazzers and Programmers' blog post: http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2008/07/19/jazzers-and-p...
Comment linking /articles/2008/07/19/jazzers-and-programmers
on “Jazzers and Programmers”Submitted A Screed Against Perfectionism in Releasing Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monkey-patching is Part of the DIY Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JRuby and the Permanent Generation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jazzers and Programmers as a story · 1 points
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