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Whiteknight's World
Personal blog · wknight8111.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
Whiteknight's World is a personal blog at wknight8111.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Fitness of Parrot as a Target Platform”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment does not discuss this blog's writing. It is about Perl 6 features and Parrot's maturity, in a thread on Damian Conway's views on Perl's future.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Fitness of Parrot as a Target Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-21
What Hacker News says?
I am quite excited about Perl 6 features (not a fan of the syntax though ... coming from Python). While I enjoy Python, I would actually consider using Perl 6 because of features like macros, regex etc. I am not sure if Perl 6 has TCO. However, I would be a little bit concerned about using Perl 6 (rakudo) in any sort of production system before say 2013 or so considering that Parrot has just started to add some crit…
Comment linking /2010/05/fitness-of-parrot-as-target-platform.html
on “Damian Conway on Perl and its future”Submitted Compilers Targetting Parrot as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parrot as a Mature Platform as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Parrot as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted IO Speedup, More Dramatic Still (Parrot VM) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fitness of Parrot as a Target Platform as a story · 4 points
HN discussion