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No, 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 wo
by pmelendez 14y ago
No, 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.
- pjmlp 14y agoI am reaching my 40's and sometimes I find the following issues: - People get amazed at Go compile speeds, when Modula-2 and Mac/Turbo Pascal compilers were already doing that in the mid-80's - People are talking about live coding and REPL, when it was already possible in the early 80's within Smalltalk and Lisp environments - Some assume C is the only way to write operating system kernels, when there was a time operating systems were made using different system programming languages and C was just UNIX's language - ... This is why I think young generations need to learn about old technology.