These are the languages that I consider interesting* today. I’ve included their approximate year of first release. Also, a look at the importance of support for concurrency. As you can see, these fit into a surprisingly small time window, which I’ll call the Golden Age.** I wanted to make it a round decade, but had [...]
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Functional Programming is old. Ancient. Like right after FORTRAN. But it’s the future. Trust me, I’m named after the dude who knew about Jesus 700 years early. Seriously, it’s not going to take 700 years for FP to go mainstream. Some would argue that it already is. Python, Ruby, and others have adopted a number [...]
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