The Ken Thompson Hack(wiki.c2.com)

98 points by stephc_int13 2 years ago | 27 comments

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful(seangoedecke.com)

49 points by zdw 1 year ago | 49 comments

Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat(matklad.github.io)

141 points by chilipepperhott 2 months ago | 83 comments

Abstraction, not syntax(ruudvanasseldonk.com)

94 points by unripe_syntax 1 year ago | 51 comments

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)(cs.princeton.edu)

62 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 21 comments