Four 1970s Languages and What They Teach Modern Developers

NDC Conferences · Talk · YouTube title: Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin

Why it's here

HN recommends it as a sampling of truly different programming paradigms beyond mainstream OOP.

What it covers

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.