Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderTo me there seems to be something wrong with using as the first language something that depends on a very, very complicated runtime and execution model to run on the hardware we currently are using. This way people end up viewing programming languages as some God-given black box and not just something another computer program written by another person provides for you. I think CS students should instead start by learning basics of computer architecture at a high level and…
I don't see why they don't just teach C, x86, and Haskell everywhere. If you know the concepts behind these, you can quickly grok any other programming language. Also I never got the whole hype behind OOP. IMHO its self explanatory, nothing you need an entire course on to be effective and understand OOP programs. Memory layout and management, advanced pointer concepts and monads are a slightly different matter. If I had to teach someone OOP I'd say, OOP is…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 378
- Total comments
- 366
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-08 | Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)First breakout · Best thread | prajjwal | 233 | 250 |
| 2015-01-18 | Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)Latest 20+ point return | karshan | 142 | 116 |
| 2017-05-09 | Dijkstra on Haskell and Java | jasim | 3 | 0 |