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Pragmatic Coders
Company blog · pragmaticcoders.com/blogprogrammingstartups
Pragmatic Coders is the company blog at pragmaticcoders.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a response to the essay "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language". Comments cite it for COBOL's reliability and discuss the wealth tax and where startup capital comes from.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pragmatic Coders is a Polish software development company. We've been building bespoke Digital Health and FinTech solutions since 2014.
What Hacker News says?
COBOL is used for the longest continuously running systems, particularly in the financial industry, many of which have been in production since the 1960s - mainly on mainframes, but noawadays also increasingly in cloud environments. There's nothing that comes close to the level of reliability that these offer, with the next closest probably being Fortran, Ada and Erlang. I found this article with some numbers [0], w…
Comment linking /resources/legacy-code-stats
on “Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"”Submitted Complete introduction to product metrics for startup founders as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNice comment. Too bad it's immediately proven wrong by reality and hard numbers. Also as a side note: We were talking about ultra wealthy, not people with some wealth. For the US as a whole only about 10-15% of startup capital ultimately comes from private investors (of which only some are ultra wealthy ). The majority comes from institutions (so ultimately mostly from pension funds)[1] Ycombinator obviously also so…
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on “Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man”Submitted Bash tips and tricks: good and not-so-good bash practices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From UX to Ax: Designing for AI Agents–and Why It Matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to launch your own decentralized application (DApp) on Ethereum? as a story · 2 points
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