Does thought crime pay?
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Abstract
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell
We examine the past, present and future of radical innovation in programming languages. How did Lisp, Simula, Actors, Beta, Smalltalk and Self give us the world of C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python and PHP? We'll ponder such questions and speculate what new wonders await us down the road.
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