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Umberto Raimondi
Personal blog · uraimo.comprogramming
Umberto Raimondi's personal blog at uraimo.com covers programming. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN for posts about building a Lisp interpreter in Swift and for Swift on ARM and Raspberry Pi support. Commenters mostly cite or link them as references rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
uraimo.com Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-05
- Recursive Tail Calls and Trampolines in Swift2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-05
- Swift 2.0: Map and FlatMap Demystified2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-08
What Hacker News says?
And then, if you need it, you can turn your vim theme in a pygments-compatible css: http://www.uraimo.com/2011/09/21/from-vim-theme-to-pygments-...
Comment linking /2011/09/21/from-vim-theme-to-pygments-css/
on “Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM”Submitted Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift as a story · 122 points
HN discussionNice post... even if before clicking through I expected a post about why asking "build me a lisp" could have been a good interview question :) As a side note, I wrote a similar post in Swift: https://www.uraimo.com/2017/02/05/building-a-lisp-from-scrat...
Comment linking /2017/02/05/building-a-lisp-from-scratch-with-swift/
on “Build me a Lisp”Submitted Swift and C: Everything You Need to Know as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAuthor here, no, it doesn't support TCO and you'd have to resort to trampolining here too. In another post[1] I've talked about this and I agree it's definitely not an elegant workaround. [1] https://www.uraimo.com/2016/05/05/recursive-tail-calls-and-t...
Comment linking /2016/05/05/recursive-tail-calls-and-trampolines-in-swift/
on “Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift”Submitted A Long Overdue Update on Swift 5.0 for Raspberry Pi Zero/1/2/3 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd some implementations in: - C: https://nakkaya.com/2010/08/24/a-micro-manual-for-lisp-imple... - Python: https://github.com/mario-goulart/not-the-whole-truth - Javascript: https://kybernetikos.github.io/Javathcript/ - Swift: https://www.uraimo.com/2017/02/05/building-a-lisp-from-scrat...
Comment linking /2017/02/05/building-a-lisp-from-scratch-with-swift/
on “A micro manual for Lisp – Not the whole truth (1978) [pdf]”Submitted Swift 2.0: Map and FlatMap Demystified as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy favourite one page implementation of a programming language is 'a micro manual for lisp, not the whole truth' by John McCarthy. https://www.uraimo.com/files/MicroManual-LISP.pdf
Comment linking /files/MicroManual-LISP.pdf
on “J one-page interpreter fragment (1992)”Submitted Recursive Tail Calls and Trampolines in Swift as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo does this mean Swift 4 should work on the Raspberry Pi? I know people had Swift 3 working, but last I heard there were some bugs holding back Swift 4 from ARM. Edit: Thinking of the two issues listed at the bottom here https://www.uraimo.com/2017/09/06/A-small-update-on-Swift-fo... . Digging deeper it looks like there hasn't been a successful ARMv7 build yet ( https://ci-external.swift.org/view/all/ ).
Comment linking /2017/09/06/A-small-update-on-Swift-for-raspberry-pi-zero-1-2-3/
on “Swift expands continuous integration system to support more platforms”Submitted A Recap of the Swift Porting Efforts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Update on Swift 3.1.1 for Raspberry Pi Zero/1/2/3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recursive Tail Calls and Trampolines in Swift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift 3.0 Upcoming Changes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift 2.0: Map and FlatMap Demystified as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Big Update on Swift 4.1.2 for Raspberry Pi Zero/1/2/3 as a story · 1 points
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