Kevlin Henney: Procedural Programming Never Went Away
Build Stuff - #1 Software Dev Conf · Talk · 1 h 2 min · 2018 · YouTube title: Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff
Why it's here
HN people recommend it as a fascinating history lesson showing that the field keeps rediscovering ideas from the 1960s.
What it covers
Kevlin Henney argues that procedural programming never went away despite later paradigms such as OO and functional. He traces the history of structured programming and shows where procedural thinking still lives in modern code and why it matters for readability.