Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away

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Argues procedural programming never went away and many modern features actually originate in 1960s languages: Algol 68 orthogonality (closures, void, compound assignment, 1-based arrays), Simula’s classes/virtual methods, and awk’s regression-test discipline. Shows a working leap‑year table‑driven test in Algol/Groovy, implements the same stack API in C and C++ and a JS closure-based object, and demonstrates a failing Liskov substitution when mixing a non‑duplicate‑top mixin. Emphasizes coordination vs computation (make, Unix pipelines, CSP/Go channels) and that mutable shared data is the hard concurrency quadrant.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:45Its Dead
3. 2:10Stonehenge
4. 3:10monoliths
5. 3:45UNIX
6. 4:45Fear of Nuclear holocaust
7. 5:37Software Engineering
8. 6:57Space Odyssey
9. 8:20System Designers
10. 9:10Algol 68
11. 11:15Leap Year
12. 14:00Go
13. 16:00TestFirst Development
14. 17:55Objects
15. 19:50List Manual
16. 20:45Structured Programming
17. 23:10Word Friday
18. 23:30Snow Clone
19. 25:30Duffs Device
20. 27:55Single Entry
21. 32:35Block and Procedure
22. 33:00Sequential Composition
23. 36:25Vocabulary
24. 37:10Further Characterization
25. 37:50Functional Programming
26. 38:40Reuse
27. 39:10Limitation
28. 39:35Topdown
29. 40:15modularity
30. 42:05data structuring
31. 43:10stack
32. 43:40common operations
33. 44:10C vs C
34. 45:15Shakespeare
35. 46:05Memory Management
36. 46:45Garbage Collection
37. 48:00Hierarchical Program Structures
38. 49:50Concatenation
39. 51:35Abstractions
40. 52:15Subtypes
41. 53:40Barbara Atlas
42. 55:30Nicolas Worth writing
43. 55:50Make
44. 56:40Food for Thought
45. 58:35The bottleneck
46. 59:00Vision Computation Model
47. 59:20UNIX Pipeline

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