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(The Scheme Way)
Personal blog · theschemeway.blogspot.comprogramming
(The Scheme Way) is a personal blog at theschemeway.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on running a startup in Scheme and recruiting programmers who use non-mainstream languages. The comments quote and discuss the post's ideas rather than praising 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.
A blog on Scheme, Erlang, and voice application development.
What Hacker News says?
http://theschemeway.blogspot.com/2007/07/recruiting-secret-w... "Great programmers are not looking for jobs. They already have one. And they don't want to switch from one Java job to another, unless they are dissatisfied with other aspects of their job. But a fraction of them would easily consider another job if it involved Scheme, Lisp or Erlang programming (or other non-mainstream languages like OCaml, Prolog, Has…
Comment linking /2007/07/recruiting-secret-weapon.html
on “Ethan Herdrick (Biographicon): Running a startup on Scheme.”Submitted Why I hate XML for DSLs as a story · 17 points
HN discussionScheme is cleaner than common lisp. I think Gambit-C has an implementation of Erlang's message passing and mailbox idea for each process and in addition to that it doesn't use OS threads for individual processes it uses first class continuations. In one test it performed similar to Erlang running as many as 900K processes on a 1GB ram P4. http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg03309.html Havin…
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on “Haskell vs. Lisp vs Erlang for Concurrency Oriented Programming?”Submitted Termite: Erlang-style concurrency in Scheme as a story · 5 points
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