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 orderAnyone with a spare Micro-SD Card and a Raspberry Pi 5 should try: http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/project-oberon/obe...
One principle that Niklaus Wirth has always espoused and with which I agree: you cannot reduce the complexity of a programming language by expanding the size of the language with greater features. This sounds like a contradiction, but as Wirth says in the preface to his Oberon programming tutorial: "The language Oberon emerged from the urge to reduce the complexity of programming languages, of Modula in particular. This effort resulted in a remarkably concise language. The extent of Oberon, the…
My second language (after BASIC) was UCSD Pascal on a small PDP-11 my dad built from a kit; I was 14 or 15, and I loved it. Then came Apple Pascal (a UCSD variant); and then I got a CP/M-80 machine, a Kaypro-4, and discovered the first version of Turbo Pascal. Compilers were expensive in those days, hundreds of dollars; Turbo Pascal 1.0 was $50. I ordered a copy just a few minutes after I learned that it existed. Pascal…
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
- 296
- Total comments
- 131
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-09 | Pascal for Small Machines: UCSD, Turbo, Delphi, Freepascal, Oberon, Modula | pjmlp | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-03-14 | The School of WirthFirst breakout | gjvc | 113 | 64 |
| 2023-12-11 | Pascal for Small Machines | hollimolli | 66 | 43 |
| 2025-05-04 | Pascal for Small MachinesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | ibobev | 116 | 24 |