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Charles Scalfani
Personal blog · cscalfani.medium.comprogrammingwriting
Charles Scalfani's personal blog at cscalfani.medium.com covers programming and writing. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Breaking Free of JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Medium author page for its article 'Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming'. The linked post is about object-oriented programming, and a commenter questioned its authorship.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Breaking Free of JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-17
- Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-24
What Hacker News says?
As mentioned in the article's comments, this appears to be an article by another author reposted wholesale without attribution: https://cscalfani.medium.com/goodbye-object-oriented-program...
Comment linking /goodbye-object-oriented-programming-a59cda4c0e53
on “Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming”Submitted Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019) as a story · 214 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write a Programming Book as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Free of JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Experts Make Bad Teachers (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Free of JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Free of JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Popular Programming Languages as a story · 1 points
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