Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderBeautiful, compact summary going to the heart of language philosophy, what we can and should build and for what purposes. To hardened pragmatists this probably looks like ideology and pointless tinkering at it's worst, but I think the slow, eventual path to sucklessness lies here in the vibrancy. Lisp will have its day again :)
Interesting article, introduced me to a whole bunch of lisps I had no idea existed. Slightly tangentially, can anyone explain to me what the supposed advantage of using Lisp is over languages such as Python and Ruby (which also provide functional programming, dynamic typing, etc)? I certainly feel that I'm more productive in some languages than others, eg, I can do the same things faster in Ruby than in Java. When I tried working in Clojure for a few mini…
I still don't understand what the connection to 'German' is.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 256
- Total comments
- 105
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-05-03 | The German School of Lisp ("Fluchtpunkt Lisps")First breakout | cemerick | 106 | 32 |
| 2018-11-02 | German School of Lisp | kamaal | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-11-12 | The German School of Lisp (2011)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 148 | 72 |