Ask HN: What piece of code could deserve a Pulitzer prize?
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The source code for the J language's interpreter.
Wikipedia would be a good candidate.
What obviously comes to mind is Jonesforth because it's a very well thought out and famous example of literate programming:
https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
That said, I dont see the parallel with the Pulitzer... it's for investigative journalism no? Maybe there is a jupyter notebook somewhere that really combines data analysis with journalistic analysis, although I've never seen, and don't really believe in, journalism that relies on any deep data analysis.
https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
That said, I dont see the parallel with the Pulitzer... it's for investigative journalism no? Maybe there is a jupyter notebook somewhere that really combines data analysis with journalistic analysis, although I've never seen, and don't really believe in, journalism that relies on any deep data analysis.
I don't think Pulitzer is only for journalism. I actually don't know much about it, but Wikipedia says:
> The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States
> The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States
I was wrong about investigative journalism being the only category
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year
The categories are Journalism, and Books/Music/Drama. I don't see an obvious place where literate programming would fit, unless it specifically was in service of one of those categories.
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year
The categories are Journalism, and Books/Music/Drama. I don't see an obvious place where literate programming would fit, unless it specifically was in service of one of those categories.
maybe they are adding a new category at some point
I'd give it to TempleOS[0] personally.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
If there would be one, which piece of code do you think would deserve it?