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prescod.net is a personal blog at prescod.net about programming and web. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Paul Prescod's posts on REST API design mistakes, REST versus SOAP, XML versus s-expressions, and Python and Perl language design. The comments cite these posts as references without 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.
Most-linked posts?
- On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-04-02
- XML is not S-Expressions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Here are some tips on how to use REST: http://www.prescod.net/rest/mistakes/ http://architects.dzone.com/news/common-rest-design-pattern
Comment linking /rest/mistakes/
on “Dudes, this is so not REST”Submitted Common REST Mistakes as a story · 40 points
HN discussionXML is not S-Expressions http://www.prescod.net/xml/sexprs.html
Comment linking /xml/sexprs.html
on “Using s-expressions instead of XML”Submitted XML is not S-Expressions as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSo there's a bunch of Perl lovers kneejerkingly responding to this post that the author doesn't "get" it. Now I myself love Perl and code in it for a living and I think the author does in fact "get" it, it's just that he thinks Perl is a problematic language precisely because "getting it" is required to use it well. It's something he's explained a little further over here: http://www.prescod.net/python/why.html You…
Comment linking /python/why.html
on “Is Perl Difficult?”Submitted Is Perl Difficult? as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> REST was born out of rejection for XML-RPC (and SOAP, which was its logical evolution once The Enterprise got involved). Not quite. REST was born out of rejection for SOAP, not XML-RPC. It addressed following issues (after Paul Prescod's article, http://www.prescod.net/rest/rest_vs_soap_overview/ ): * SOAP didn't address objects with URIs, so you couldn't integrate your services with RDF and semantic web; RDF and…
Comment linking /rest/rest_vs_soap_overview/
on “RESTful APIs, the big lie”Submitted On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWell, Paul might deserve a bit of the blame. He's written a code snippet or two of "Lisp in Python" -- unpythonic code that mimics the way Lisp does it, because he likes Lisp. See: http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html
Comment linking /python/IsPythonLisp.html
on “Python doesn't feel like a functional language (and Paul is blamed for making author want it to)”Submitted On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp as a story · 3 points
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