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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by teddyh on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:11PM (#24674701)
In a recent talk, Robert Martin summarizes the history of programming languages for about 35 minutes, starting here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1xDCCMh7g#t=2m47s

Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by presentation on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:14PM (#24676269)
Cool video, I like his rundown of the major programming paradigms. I'd love to show this to some beginners I know - though perhaps with some light explanation of the some of the low-level jargon he uses, as the bootcamps and tutorials out there these days don't really explain things from first principles like that anymore.