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Phillip Trelford
Personal blog · trelford.com/blogprogramming
Phillip Trelford's personal blog at trelford.com covers programming. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Phil Trelford's blog for F# and functional programming posts, including C# verbosity, interpreter design and a mocking library. Commenters mostly cite these posts as sources rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
There's already a mocking lib called Foq: http://trelford.com/blog/post/fstestlang.aspx
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on “Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac”Submitted C# 6 Cuts as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI agree. The parsing step is distracting. I have TONS of questions and all the tutorials do the parsing stuff, and stop at doing integer +/*-, maybe vars, maybe if, maybe basic functions! I'm doing one, and I'm only working on the AST. I take the idea from this blog: http://www.trelford.com/blog/post/interpreter.aspx And from http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/plc/ . So I get rid of the parsing, and go directly at "ho…
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on “Make Your Own Programming Language”Submitted Parsing with Snobol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionC# verbosity is far from gone. http://trelford.com/blog/post/LighterCSharp.aspx http://trelford.com/blog/post/Boiler.aspx http://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/overview-of-type-... http://www.njgeeks.org/presentations/FS-Patterns-Long/#18
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on “Haskell in Production: The good, the bad, and the ugly”Submitted X-Platform development with Xamarin.Forms and F# as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's sad how C# is put on a pedestal, since it has plenty of obvious critical flaws, see links below for a list and this is just the tip of the iceberg. http://hestia.typepad.com/flatlander/2012/01/action-func-voi... http://trelford.com/blog/post/LighterCSharp.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/411906/c-sharp-net-design... http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/06/27/on-partiallyconstructed-o... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/d…
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on “More functional C#”Submitted 10 Programming Languages in 10 minutes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are 182 articles in the F# Journal. The F# News blog has had many applications on it: http://fsharpnews.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/most-popular-f-samp... So has Phil Trelford's blog: http://trelford.com/blog/ And many others.
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on “F# Survey 2015 Results”Submitted Modern Art as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small Basic Parser with F# and FParsec as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing FunSharp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing FunSharp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compiling F# to JavaScript with Pit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C# Light Syntax as a story · 1 points
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