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"Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis (ACM SIGPLAN Sep-82)
- tokenadult 18y agoKudos for posting this. I just did a Search YC search to see if this link had been posted to HN before, saw that it didn't turn up in that search, and then submitted, only to see that you posted just a while before I did. (The slightly different form of the URL you submitted kept the HN software from detecting my duplicate submission.) I've just deleted my submission to invite other readers to comment on this thread. Good catch.
- skmurphy 18y agoI came across "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" this afternoon at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5 and thought the whole set was worth posting. More on "syntactic sugar" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoAwesome find! I can now ignore the submissions that will arise over the course of a year when no less than 20 bloggers pick their 10 favorites, and post their blog entries to Reddit. Much like the gold of "best-of" craigslist, you've identified the source and that's perfect.