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Sean Hess
Personal blog · seanhess.github.ioprogrammingweb
Sean Hess's personal blog at seanhess.github.io covers programming and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Practical Haskell (2015)”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to this blog's practical guide to installing Haskell with the stack tool, including a getting-started walkthrough. They cite it as a how-to without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Practical Haskell (2015)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-25
What Hacker News says?
Another way to get binaries is to install with stack. See here: http://seanhess.github.io/2015/08/04/practical-haskell-getti... . At our first Utah Haskell meetup we had around 30 people manage to get GHC and some libraries installed, then complete a tutorial in less than a couple hours.
Comment linking /2015/08/04/practical-haskell-getting-started.html
on “Haskell for Mac”Submitted AngularJS Directive Design Made Easy as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI have no idea how to configure vscode, but stack is really simple. This will get you started. stack new my-project cd my-project stack ghci > main http://seanhess.github.io/2015/08/04/practical-haskell-getti... Haskell’s community evolved very differently from JS and the rest of open source. What seems simple to many isn’t necessarily what seems simple to the rest of us. Much of what this community considers simpli…
Comment linking /2015/08/04/practical-haskell-getting-started.html
on “An opinionated guide to Haskell”Submitted Swift – Why Annoying Is Good as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Haskell – Using Monads as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Haskell (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AngularJS Directive Design Made Easy as a story · 1 points
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