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 [Et tu, Cthulhu]: https://hpjansson.org/blag/
 [A hash table re-hash]: https://hpjansson.org/blag/2018/07/24/a-hash-table-re-hash/
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+# [Evanmiller.org]
+
+I mostly only read the articles dealing with programming languages.
+The down-to-earth commentary made me feel like the author both
+appreciates the thought process that went into the design, and has
+enough hindsight to find where that thought process fell short.
+
+[A Taste of Rust]
+:   An overview of some of the language's features.  Some comments
+    resonated particularly well with me, e.g. on nested functions:
+
+    > With other languages, I’m never quite sure where to put
+    > helper functions.  I’m usually wary of factoring code into
+    > small, “beautiful” functions because I’m afraid they’ll end
+    > up under the couch cushions, or behind the radiator next to
+    > my car keys.  With Rust, I can build up a kind of organic
+    > tree of function definitions, each scoped to the place where
+    > they’re actually going to be used, and promote them up the
+    > tree as they take on the Platonic form of Reusable Code.
+
+[Evanmiller.org]: https://www.evanmiller.org/
+[A Taste of Rust]: https://www.evanmiller.org/a-taste-of-rust.html