A Nickel's Worth
a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Jacob Gabrielson's personal blog on Common Lisp, Emacs, scripting, and programming style, including a guide to naming variables.
What HN saysHN commenters point to its variable naming guide as relevant reading and cite a post on Ulrich Drepper's memory paper and Common Lisp.
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schneiderscode · 2019-10-20
When people try to migrate their shell scripts to a friendlier scripting language I'm always reminded of this post about "Bruby"[1]. It's a compelling argument to move to something comfortable but it also means you're at risk of just using Python's easy "if" and string-parsing logic when you're still relying on shell script tools for the core functionality.
[1] https://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2016/05/please-dont-write-bruby.h…
sethwm · 2016-08-18
A Nickel's Worth's guide on variable naming seems like a relevant read here:
https://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.ie/2016/04/a-guide-to-naming-variable…
fluffster · 2009-06-16
HT to Jacob Gabrielson -
http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2008/05/ulrich-dreppers-memory-pap…