THE VIDEO SHELF · programming language paradigms
Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin
Scott Wlaschin's NDC Oslo talk on four 1970s languages, SQL, Prolog, ML and Smalltalk. It explains their philosophies and what practical principles they still offer modern developers.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a sampling of truly different programming paradigms beyond mainstream OOP.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- NDC Conferences
- Topic
- programming language paradigms
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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> I've learned many languages including C, Objective C, Java, Python, Ruby, JS, and some Haskell. You've learned basically the same language over and over again: Algol-family imperative-OO-mishmash. Haskell is probably the most unique out of all of them, and I'm inclined to think you …
yawaramin on Hacker News · 2020-02
In The Zen of GoRust, Go, Julia, Nim are all cruly braced, procedural, mutable, object oriented languages. I think we need languages that bring new paradigms. All that you quoted fail in this respect. [VIDEO]
souenzzo on Hacker News · 2019-07
In Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?
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