Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff
What it is
Kevlin Henney argues that procedural programming never went away despite later paradigms such as OO and functional. He traces the history of structured programming and shows where procedural thinking still lives in modern code and why it matters for readability.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN people recommend it as a fascinating history lesson showing that the field keeps rediscovering ideas from the 1960s.
- 2 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2018, last 2021
What HN commenters said
“I strongly recommend this talk by software consultant and author Kevlin Henney”
Covers Algol 68's influence on language keywords like int, bool, struct.
open-source-ux, 2019-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Algol 68”
“tour of how all the best discoveries of the past decade or two really date back to the 1960s”
Tour of how modern discoveries date back to the 1960s.
bunderbunder, 2018-04 · Recommendation · in “Designing very large JavaScript applications”
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Topics: procedural programming, structured programming, software history, code readability, kevlin henney
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