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wall.org is a personal blog at wall.org about programming and writing. Since 2008, 66 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)23 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2008-02-07
- Natural Language Principles in Perl (1998)9 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2008-01-14
- Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2012-09-03
- An ASM Monad (2013)6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-11-03
- Comparing Religions X: Moral Depth5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-10-09
- Larry Wall's Decoded Geek Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-09
- /~larry/perl.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-09
- 2nd State of the Onion- 19982 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-09
- Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-21
- /~larry/pm.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-07
What Hacker News says?
I discovered SSC through this blog: http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog which I discovered thanks to this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176929 and I can heartily recommend it. That comment, and more specifically, Aron's blog have made a huge impact in my life. I've spent hundreds of hours reading it and losing myself in intellectual rabbit holes, I've been introduced to many interesting topics, books…
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on “Still alive”Submitted Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page as a story · 303 points
HN discussionI don't know you, but I love that you commented on this because your history and perspective is a perfect example of the phenomenon I'm talking about. TO your question, I don't claim to have all the answers (let alone all the "Answers in Genesis") but I've come to understand there's a lot more nuance to a "literal" understanding of the Bible than Ken Ham may have led you to believe. A couple of resources I've found…
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on “Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time”Submitted Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) as a story · 178 points
HN discussionI've shared this before in a previous thread but I'll do so again: https://wall.org/~aron/blog/ This blog has had a huge impact in my life and I'll be forever grateful to Aron for uploading it to the internet and also grateful to Fede_V who shared the blog in this HN comment a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176929 My life is much more fun and fulfilling thanks to its influence. There are lots…
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on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page as a story · 92 points
HN discussionBjarne Stroustrup says about this too. Also have a look at Larry Wall's web page: http://www.wall.org/~larry/
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on “A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC”Submitted An ASM Monad (2013) as a story · 83 points
HN discussionNatural Language Principles in Perl (by Larry Wall): http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html
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on “Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages”Submitted An Alternative Operator Precedence Rule (2013) as a story · 18 points
HN discussionor the worst. As Larry Wall said: "The potential for greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil."[1] [1]: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html PS. I always wanted to quote this :-)
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on “JavaScript for OS X Automation”Submitted On the importance of units as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWith enough macros you can do anything. I'm not aware of anyone doing this in C, but this is a cool example of doing approximately the same thing in a more easily extensible language: http://wall.org/~lewis/2013/10/15/asm-monad.html
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on “Main is usually a function – when is it not?”Submitted Perl6 Logo as a story · 7 points
HN discussionLarry Wall (creator of Perl) was ahead of the curve on brutalist design :) http://www.wall.org/~larry/
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on “Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need”Submitted Perl, the first postmodern computer language as a story · 7 points
HN discussionworks for me; in any event, here's the homepage: http://www.wall.org/ LW's blog is behind the first link from the top
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on “Interview: Larry Wall”Submitted An ASM Monad as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor the ease of others (your link is broken): http://www.wall.org/~larry/
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on “Interview: Larry Wall”Submitted Natural Language Principles in Perl (1998) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionprodigious intellect and a childhood hero of mine. Unfortunately his contribution to web design rarely gets mentioned ( http://www.wall.org/~larry/); no bootstrap--incredible.
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on “Interview: Larry Wall”Submitted Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthe man is a legend. Perl was awesome when it first came out. Its time has passed but you can see Perl's influence in many things we use and take for granted today. favorite writing: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
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on “Interview: Larry Wall”Submitted Perl, the first postmodern computer language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe simple theory I use for explaining Perl preference is that it correlates to your preference and tolerance of postmodernism in general. http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html is a good elaboration on the postmodernism of Perl, I think.
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on “Wow, Perl 6 [video]”Submitted Natural Language Principles in Perl (1998) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks for your moderation! I'll just add that I generally love Hacker News, and I wish I knew a more constructive way to express my feeling here. (By the way, I think it's an interesting approach of MetaFilter to have a "meta" forum for meta-discussions like this one...) Larry Wall gave a state of the onion speech about Perl as a "postmodern" language... which means something like, its guiding principles aren't onl…
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on “Wow, Perl 6 [video]”Submitted Natural Language Principles in Perl as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is a blog about assembling 6502 code in Haskell: http://www.wall.org/~lewis/2013/10/15/asm-monad.html
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on “Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp”Submitted Larry Wall's Decoded Geek Code as a story · 2 points
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