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A Slice Through the History of Programming Languages

Gilad Bracha

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Programming languagesHistory and cultureLanguage design and type systemsHistory of computingFunctional programming

Gilad Bracha traces the history of programming languages from Fortran to functional programming, exploring why we build them and how history informs design.

Based on a talk I gave at Tsinghua University in December 2019, this video takes a historical perspective from Fortran to APL to Functional Programming, , asking why we build programming languages and showing how history can inform future designs.

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On “Do you know any interesting talks about PL design/compilers/interpreters?”

This is an iOS note, so it might not be formatted well, but: Philip Wadler - Linear types can change the world! https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/24c8/50390fba27fc6f3241cb34ce7bc6f3765627.pdf Gilad Bracha - Pluggable Type Systems https://bracha.org/pluggableTypesPosition.pdf Gilad Bracha - A Slice Through the History of Programming Languages link to this video Guy Steele - Growing a Language (I actually saw this many months ago) link to this video Trevor Jim - What are principal typings and what are they good for? https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/237721.237728?download=true Eeve - Let’s stop copying C https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/
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