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The Abstract Factory
Personal blog · abstractfactory.blogspot.comculturebusiness
The Abstract Factory is a personal blog at abstractfactory.blogspot.com about culture and business. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How to design a popular programming language”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on programming language research as the source of a quote. The post's URL starts 'how-to-design-po', and the comment only points to it without judging it.
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.
in a city of the future it is difficult to concentrate ( keunwoo 's blog)
Most-linked posts?
- How to design a popular programming language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-14
What Hacker News says?
I am sure the quote is much older, but I found this: http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-design-po...
Comment linking /2010/05/how-to-design-popular-programming.html
on “Research in programming languages”Submitted The (logarithmic) calendar I want as a story · 173 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to design a popular programming language as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sexual desire, authenticity, and Internet business models as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another name for the "wisdom of crowds" as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to "The social graph is neither social or a graph" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the point of Facebook alternatives? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
