Hacker News: xpmatteohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xpmatteoHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:55:37 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by xpmatteo in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""]]>Common expressions such as f = O(n) are not formal at all -- the "=" symbol does not represent equality, and the "n" symbol does not represent a number.

]]>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:53:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580932xpmatteohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580932https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580932<![CDATA[New comment by xpmatteo in "A little story about the `yes` Unix command"]]>The simplest Unix command is arguably "true"

]]>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:25:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32177642xpmatteohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32177642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32177642