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John Backus: Function Level Programming and the FL Language 1987
Arthur Vard · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2019–2026).
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Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 3.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
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The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Functional programming. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
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| John Backus: Function Level Programming and the FL Language 1987Current video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirichtalk · Confreaks | 17 | 18 | 90% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019talk · GOTO Conferences | 16 | 14 | 80% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)talk · Strange Loop Conference | 14 | 14 | 70% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “History of John Backus's functional programming project [draft]”. Its short rationale: Backus presenting function level programming and FL.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Show HN: A small, weird and unpractical programming language”. Its short rationale: Backus talk on FL, successor to FP.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was still here”. Its short rationale: Backus presenting the FL language.