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mofey

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February 15, 2009 (17y ago)
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  1. "Structured Programming with GOTO Statements" (Knuth) (pplab.snu.ac.kr)

    This excerpt has been appeared in many news featured on YC, but I think it deserves its own thread. In the beginning there's discussion about the performance penalties of dropping GOTOs. However, in the second part…

    3 points 1
  2. My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (gnu.org)

    Transcript of Richard Stallman's Speech, 28 Oct 2002, at the International Lisp Conference

    81 points 41
  3. Ask HN: "Smart" VCS with a built-in interpreter?

    Has there ever been developed a VCS that tracks changes on a semantic level? For example, if you change a variable name, then a "smart VCS" doesn't treat it as character updates, but rather as refactoring of a field.

    2 points 4
  4. The Emacs Problem (sites.google.com)

    <<What would you rather do? Learn 16 different languages and frameworks in order to do "simple" log-file and configuration-file processing? Or just buckle down, learn Lisp, and have all of these problems go away…

    73 points 40
  5. Ask HN: How many of you are coding today?

    Life is unfair But that's okay Someday I swear No coding away On Valentine's Day

    23 points 22