Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend it as a fascinating history lesson showing that the field keeps rediscovering ideas from the 1960s.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Build Stuff - #1 Software Dev Conf

Topic

programming paradigms history

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• I strongly recommend this talk by software consultant and author Kevlin Henney called Procedural Programming: It's Back? It Never Went Away He talks a bit out Algol 68 and how influential it was on programming language design. Many language keywords we're familiar with today originated …

• If you have an interest in the history of programming methodologies, this talk is fascinating: Procedural programming: it's back? It never went away [VIDEO]

• You may appreciate Kevlin Henney's talk, "Procedural Programming - It's back? It never went away."[1] It's a tour of how all the best discoveries of the past decade or two really date back to the 1960s. [1] [VIDEO] [VIDEO]