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Re:Ask HN: What has not changed in the Tech industry within ... by diehunde on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:31PM (#19967388)
- programming language paradigms

- data storage techniques have evolved but the essentials are still the same

Re:Ask HN: What has not changed in the Tech industry within ... by ksaj on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:16AM (#19967707)
The fact that so much "new" stuff comes from Lisp proves you are right. Instead of 2 steps forward, one back, it seems with programming languages we keep returning to the start.

Lisp is one of those languages that rarely gets an upgrade, but everyone else keeps coming back to emulate it.

Re:Ask HN: What has not changed in the Tech industry within ... by mattmanser on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:07PM (#19976435)
Well, bits of it.

Otherwise by now we'd all be using it by now, right?