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Peter Nelson
Personal blog · peterdn.com/postprogrammingsystems
Peter Nelson's personal blog at peterdn.com covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Links a PDF on the author's site, a paper on a JIT translator for the Oberon language. The commenter cites it as evidence that Oberon's JIT approach had relative success.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> Don't do it. http://peterdn.com/files/A_JIT_Translator_for_Oberon.pdf Oberon did it with relative success. Relative to other VMs at the time.
Comment linking /files/A_JIT_Translator_for_Oberon.pdf
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