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Zio Tom's blog
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Zio Tom's blog is a personal blog at ziotom78.blogspot.com about programming and science. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Scientific data analysis on a high-performance cluster using Free Pascal”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A blog post about one person's experience developing a data analysis application in Object Pascal. HN commenters link it as a real-world example of Object Pascal being used for development.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts about programming languages
Most-linked posts?
- Scientific data analysis on a high-performance cluster using Free Pascal2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-11-26
What Hacker News says?
> probably the first language to seriously compete with C++ How about Object Pascal? I think Object Pascal is a better C++ than C++. It's too bad it isn't more widely used. Here are a couple of interesting perspectives from people who have done some recent development with Object Pascal: 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005203 (see also https://github.com/whatwg/wattsi ) 2. http://ziotom78.blogspot.com/2015…
Comment linking /2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-fpc.html
on “Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS”Submitted Experiments with Nimrod as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSome other in the wild examples, the WHATWG has a tool called Wattsi that's written in Object Pascal: https://github.com/whatwg/wattsi Interesting blog post from last year on someone's experiences developing an application in Object Pascal: http://ziotom78.blogspot.com/2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-... Free Pascal itself: http://www.freepascal.org/
Comment linking /2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-fpc.html
on “Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?”Submitted Scientific data analysis on a high-performance cluster using Free Pascal as a story · 24 points
HN discussion> I don't understand why you'd use Pascal today when you could use C++. Here are some "whys": 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005203 2. http://ian.hixie.ch/programming/ 3. http://ziotom78.blogspot.com/2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-... 4. http://freepascal.org/advantage.var 5. https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/features Object Pascal has changed a lot in the last 25 years. You should check out mod…
Comment linking /2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-fpc.html
on “Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers”