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June 29, 2023

Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (June 29, 2023)

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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for June 29, 2023 :</p>

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Programming Languages Going Above and Beyond

https://whileydave.com/2023/06/27/programming-languages-going-above-and-beyond/

Summary: Dr. David J. Pearce discusses the lack of significant improvements in programming languages over the years. He highlights Dafny, a language with the ability to statically check critical properties of programs, as a glimpse of what's possible. Pearce shares examples of Dafny's capabilities, including proving theorems and checking properties at compile time.

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The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition

https://awk.dev/

Summary: The second edition of "The AWK Programming Language" is set to release by the end of September. The first edition, written by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger in 1988, has seen AWK evolve with multiple implementations and significant changes in computing. The updated edition will reflect these changes and include historical documents, code snippets, and essays on AWK and related topics. The AWK source is maintained at https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk, while Gawk releases and manual can be found at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk.

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