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The Onion Stand
Personal blog · onionstand.blogspot.comprogramming
The Onion Stand is a personal blog at onionstand.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. 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 cite this blog's Perl posts, including a 2012 piece about relying on hash ordering and a 2011 post on Perl adoption and documentation on DotCloud. The comments only link to them as references.
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.
Showcasing some Perl to the unsuspecting World
What Hacker News says?
Perl started to enforce this in 5.18 due to security issues. This also gives wider latitude to the data structures used in implementations due to the looser guarantees. http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-you-relying-on-ha...
Comment linking /2012/12/are-you-relying-on-hash-keys-being.html
on “Go’s map iteration order is random”Submitted Teaching Perl to Undergraduates as a story · 33 points
HN discussionAbsolutely. Perl on DotCloud was a huge success: no other service on our platform has seen such rapid and massive adoption! Perl hackers are much more experienced on average, they typically master more than one language, and they are extremely good at documenting and helping each other out [1] [2] [3]. [1] http://blogs.perl.org/users/leo_lapworth/2011/04/deploying-t... [2] http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2011/04/cata…
Comment linking /2011/04/catalyst-in-cloud.html
on “Stakato Developer Preview - Python and Perl Enterprise Cloud Platform”Submitted Tweetylicious - a Twitter-like microblogging app in just one file as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast, concise and reliable code? Try Perl as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perls of 2011 as a story · 4 points
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