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Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin

NDC Conferences · talk · Watch on YouTube

Programming language designFunctional programmingDatabases & storage

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a sampling of truly different programming paradigms beyond mainstream OOP.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Check out this fantastic talk by Scott Wlaschin to get a sampling of truly different language paradigms”

    Sampling of truly different language paradigms and problem approaches.

    yawaramin, 2020-02 · Strong recommendation · in “The Zen of Go”

  2. “I think we need languages that bring new paradigms.”

    Talk on languages with different paradigms.

    souenzzo, 2019-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?”

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Topics: sql, prolog, ml, smalltalk, language design

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