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On Scheme

Personal blog · pschombe.wordpress.comprogramming

On Scheme is a personal blog at pschombe.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Real Criticisms of Scheme”. The last post was in 2006, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2007–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Thoughts on Scheme and teaching Scheme

Most-linked posts?

  1. Real Criticisms of Scheme
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-04-12
  2. A Comparison Between Scheme and Common Lisp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-04-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Real Criticisms of Scheme as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Convincing Programmers They Want To Use Lisp as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Real Criticisms of Scheme as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted A Comparison Between Scheme and Common Lisp as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Implementing a Destructuring Bind in Scheme as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why I prefer Scheme over Common Lisp as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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