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Only brand-new links are allowed on the front page?
by profquail 14y ago
Only brand-new links are allowed on the front page?
- Jtsummers 14y agoHopefully that's never the rules. However, the title could be more informative, apparently there was a minor version release 3 days ago.
- ams6110 14y agoI found it informative. I'd never heard of Chicken Scheme.
- profquail 14y agoI believe there was also a major version release (4.8.0) fairly recently. I read some development notes a while back and one of the key features planned for 4.8.0 was a new optimizer based on flow-directed lightweight closure conversion; this is the same technique used in STALIN Scheme, which is widely considered to be one of the fastest known Scheme implementations (i.e., it produces the fastest compiled code). More info on this, for anyone who's interested: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8859486/other-references-to-how-the-stalin-compiler-brutally-optimizes http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8859486/other-references-...
- DASD 14y agoI submitted a link approximateley 5 months ago for the 4.8 release which received 2 upvotes. Shows the hit-or-miss nature of Hacker News.
- pmelendez 14y agoNo, but it is hardly news if it had been around for more than a decade. If the poster finds that there is something new about it, a link to the specific item would be more helpful. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3440777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3440777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297071
- scott_s 14y agoI find it much more tiresome when people complain that something is not news.
- pmelendez 14y agoI am not complaining about the link not being news. I am complaining about the lack of explanation about why it is relevant today. This is similar to if somebody would post stuff like: Mono C# compiler [http://www.mono-project.com/CSharp_Compiler http://www.mono-project.com/CSharp_Compiler] Pypy [http://pypy.org/ http://pypy.org/] Those are interesting implementations for well known languages that aren't new. If I post them without explanation of why I found them interesting and relevant now, then I would mislead people and they might conclude that it is advertising. Am I alone with this?
- pjmlp 14y agoActually I find it quite good, given that the average age in HN readers seem to be quite young, given what I see in certain comments. So it is good to share knowledge from old stuff.
- dreamdu5t 14y agoExactly. I'm young and found it interesting and useful. I was aware of Lisp but not Chicken Scheme specifically. It's nice to read a discussion about it.