[HN Gopher] Presentation: Four programming languages from forty ... ___________________________________________________________________ Presentation: Four programming languages from forty years ago (2018) Author : hazelnut-tree Score : 20 points Date : 2022-08-28 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (fsharpforfunandprofit.com) (TXT) w3m dump (fsharpforfunandprofit.com) | hazelnut-tree wrote: | This excellent and stimulating talk (including slides) examines | four programming languages from the 1970s: | | - SQL | | - Prolog | | - ML (Meta Language) | | - Smalltalk | | - A surprise bonus language revealed near the end of the talk | | _Presentation description_ : | | "The 1970's were a golden age for new programming languages, but | do they have any relevance to programming today? Can we still | learn from them?" | | "In this talk, we'll look at four languages designed over forty | years ago -- SQL, Prolog, ML, and Smalltalk -- and discuss their | philosophy and approach to programming, which is very different | from most popular languages today." | | _Some quotes from the talk_ : | | "So what can we learn from the 1970s? Some interesting things | that we haven't really caught up [today]...Pretty much everything | that we can think of as modern programming happened in the 1970s" | | The following programming paradigms stabilised by the | early-1980s: Imperative, Object-oriented, Functional, Symbolic, | Logic, Stack-based: | | "What's interesting is all these paradigms really solidified by | the late 70s and early 80s, and these are the paradigms we still | use today. We really haven't progressed that much." ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-28 23:00 UTC)