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Nicolas Bize
Personal blog · nicolasbize.com/blog · on HN as bubbliciousprogrammingwriting
Nicolas Bize's personal blog at nicolasbize.com covers programming and writing. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “30 years later, QBasic is still the best”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's QBasic post, which argues QBasic is still a good language, run through DOSBox, for teaching kids to program. Commenters cite it when discussing beginner languages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- 30 years later, QBasic is still the best9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-05-05
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug for a tiny project I did a while back that does exactly this: http://nicolasbize.com/faviconx/
Comment linking /faviconx/
on “Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis”Submitted 30 years later, QBasic is still the best as a story · 493 points
HN discussionYa this appeared on HN previously http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti...
Comment linking /blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/
on “Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?”Submitted 30 years later, QBasic is still the best as a story · 373 points
HN discussionFunny. This site is blocked at the Legoland Hotel for being a hacking site: Access Denied http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti... The web page you are trying to access has been blocked. The URL has been categorized under: Criminal Skills/Hacking for Merlin Entertainment. - LLC Hotel [63.145.217.227] Please contact your support team if you feel that this is incorrect.
Comment linking /blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/
on “30 years later, QBasic is still the best”Submitted 30 years later, QBasic is still the best as a story · 317 points
HN discussionhttp://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti...
Comment linking /blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/
on “Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming”Submitted How I ended up conducting successful tech interviews with just 1 question as a story · 261 points
HN discussionI'll be using QBasic to teach my kids programming. They both got Raspberry Pis for Christmas, which I preloaded with DosBox. This was always Plan A, but this article made me stop looking for a Plan B: http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti...
Comment linking /blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/
on “Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?”Submitted 30 years later, QBasic is still the best (2016) as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis guy installed QBasic through DOSBOX and used it to successfully get his son into programming: http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti... Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11636383
Comment linking /blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/
on “How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript”Submitted Show HN: FavIconX: make progress bars out of favicons as a story · 13 points
HN discussionMy website usually has very little activity (about 100-200 visits per day for an open source project) and out of nowhere I went #1 on HN last week-end for a blog article. From saturday to monday: 80,935 unique visits with peaks of 600 simultaneous people on site. Out of those 81K, 24,661 came from HN. The average time spent on site was 2:11. No real pattern, things started going viral as soon as the article hit the…
Comment linking /blog/and-the-best-shared-hosting-service-is-nearlyfreespeech/
on “Ask HN: How much traffic to expect if your project hits HN front page?”Submitted The best IDE in the world as a story · 12 points
HN discussionReminds me of this guy who installed QBasic through DOSBOX and used it to successfully get his son into programming: http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti... Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11636383
Comment linking /blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/
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