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pl patterns
Personal blog · plpatterns.blogspot.comprogrammingwriting
pl patterns is a personal blog at plpatterns.blogspot.com about programming and writing. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Programming is just like writing”. 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
Linked in an Exploratory Programming thread, where one commenter compares discovering ideas while coding to writing an essay or blog post. The comment does not judge the blog's posts.
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.
Writings about programming languages and patterns in general
Most-linked posts?
- Programming is just like writing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-03-04
What Hacker News says?
I don't know if you're a writer, but it's the exact same thing as when you're writing an essay or blog post. You have an idea, you start writing about it, and then as you write, more ideas that you hadn't originally thought of start flowing, and you write them down as they come. So in that sense, you don't know what you're going to write until you actually write it. The act of writing one thing triggers new thoughts…
Comment linking /2007/09/programming-is-writing.html
on “Exploratory Programming”Submitted Programming is just like writing as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1, 2, n - How Coding Is About Design Iteration as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Prototype-Production Knob - "Lispers, I'm waiting for you to chime in right about now..." as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Practicality and Tool-Making - Why I'm not implementing my own programming language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Greatest Contribution to Programming Languages as a story · 1 points
HN discussion