Programing: The Last 4000 Years
summary
Argues that programming mirrors Western historical eras and gives concrete markers: classical era: LISP ML Ada Smalltalk with type inference continuations higher‑order and actor/CSP ideas, mid‑late 80s: proprietary rise with Java Visual Basic Delphi and what is called Medieval C++ (and PHP in the 90s), 2000s: open source boom, Agile Manifesto, Python Ruby and Alexandrescu’s modern C++, and last decade: mobile disruption with Rust Haskell Closure and polyglot systems.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00The history of civilization
- 1:04Renaissance to modernity
- 1:53Programming's classical era
- 2:31The medieval software age
- 3:34Renaissance in software
- 4:28Postmodern programming
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