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Technomadic
Personal blog · sellout.github.ioprogramming
Technomadic is a personal blog at sellout.github.io about programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Common Lisp writeup for its type hierarchy diagram. Commenters use the diagram to ask how built-in types like base-char and character relate, and one posts a fuller type tree.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /media/CL-type-hierarchy.png2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-29
What Hacker News says?
> http://sellout.github.io/media/CL-type-hierarchy.png Indeed. Take for example base-char, which is a type. base-char derives (derives? the straight solid black line is not represented in the legend) from character, which is a built-in class (according to legend). So is character a class too? does base-char encapsulate a character or something like it? Before anyone comment, please keep in mind that this comment doe…
Comment linking /media/CL-type-hierarchy.png
on “How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual”> * The relation between the various native data-types were quite unclear to me. http://sellout.github.io/media/CL-type-hierarchy.png
Comment linking /media/CL-type-hierarchy.png
on “How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual”While the post references a link to the 'Type Hierarchy of Strings'[0], here is the full type tree[1] for Common Lisp. [0]: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/strings.html#stri... [1]: https://sellout.github.io/2012/03/03/common-lisp-type-hierar...
Comment linking /2012/03/03/common-lisp-type-hierarchy
on “Quirks of Common Lisp Types”