50 in 50
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Languages--what's to learn from them? Relics of the past; we know how to design them/to use them. Types/messages /invocation/loops/numbers/methods/big ol' libraries/lots of = signs. Heh, but...
What is programming, and what role do programming languages play in that process?
We have learned a lot over the last five decades: organizing principles, established conventions, theory, fashions, and fads. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." In this talk we survey what we think are the most important lessons of the past that future programmers--and future programming language designers--ought not forget. We illustrate each lesson by discussing specific programming languages of the past, and endeavor to shine what light we can on the future.
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HOPL III: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languagesLanguages-what's to learn from them? Relics of the past; we know how to design them / to use them. Types / messages / invocation / loops / numbers / methods / big ol' libraries / lots of = signs. Heh, but what is programming, and what role do ...
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October 2007
241 pages
ISBN:9781595938657
DOI:10.1145/1297846
- General Chair:
- Richard P. Gabriel,
- Program Chairs:
- David F. Bacon,
- Cristina Videira Lopes,
- Guy L. Steele
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Published: 20 October 2007
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OOPSLA07: ACM SIGPLAN Object Oriented Programming Systems and Applications Conference
October 21 - 25, 2007
Quebec, Montreal, Canada
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