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Programblings
Personal blog · webmat.wordpress.comprogrammingphilosophy
Programblings is a personal blog at webmat.wordpress.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. 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
The linked post is 'Do not learn Ruby' from 2008, shared in a 'Do not learn Perl' thread. A commenter asks whether it is one of the internet memes going around.
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.
Rambling about programming and life as a programmer
What Hacker News says?
Is this one of those Internet "memes" making the rounds? http://webmat.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/do-not-learn-ruby/
Comment linking /2008/02/20/do-not-learn-ruby/
on “Do not learn Perl”Submitted An easy way to make your code more testable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An epiphany about Functional Programming and Lazy Evaluation as a story · 1 points
HN discussion