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Re:Writing tools I learned from The Economist by halhod on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:14PM (#26702476)
almost all are written by Ann, who is brilliant. the odd one is written by a subject matter expert, or by someone for whom the subject was a source

this one is a particularly good example, that HN may enjoy https://www.economist.com/obituary/2019/02/21/obituary-the-m...

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Re:Writing tools I learned from The Economist by astrange on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:09AM (#26709333)
Dennis Ritchie got 1.5 articles and John McCarthy 0.5, although it's a bit painful to read the Economist house style discussing programming languages.

https://www.economist.com/babbage/2011/10/20/printfgoodbye-d...

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2011/11/05/dennis-ritchie...

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