Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a sampling of truly different programming paradigms beyond mainstream OOP.
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec yawaramin · 2020-02 · on “The Zen of Go”
> 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 haven't gone too far with it. Perhaps you know SQL though and recognize how a relational (roughly, set-oriented) language can work. My point is that I understand that Go offers you some compelling advantages. We're just saying that other languages offer some pretty amazing things too, and they are even better designed (as languages) than Go. Check out this fantastic talk by Scott Wlaschin to get a sampling of tr
Recommends souenzzo · 2019-07 · on “Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?”
Rust, 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. [this video]
Cites hazelnut-tree · 2022-08 · on “50 years Smalltalk anniversary celebration at Computer History Museum”
I posted a talk on HN recently about four programming languages from the 1970s - Smalltalk was one of the languages discussed. Smalltalk has a object-oriented programming model (OOP) with notable differences to the more familiar OOP model from languages like Java and C#. Smalltalk also has an windowing IDE (eschews separate text files), a consistent model, and minimal syntax (just 3 keywords). It's a very interesting language. Here's a Smalltalk demo from the talk: Four Languages from Forty Years Ago (2018) (44min mark): [this video]