Ask HN: When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages?

Re:Ask HN: When was the last really transformational idea in... by davo11 on Saturday February 07, 2009 @06:47AM (#471065)

both these are outgrowths of C++ features - templates and rtti, which I saw first in the early 80's but were probably around earlier.

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Re:Ask HN: When was the last really transformational idea in... by BigZaphod on Saturday February 07, 2009 @08:39AM (#471112)

I'm not sure when type-safe generics came on the scene (perhaps that was C++), but introspection/reflection has been around since Smalltalk at least.

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Re:Ask HN: When was the last really transformational idea in... by wheels on Saturday February 07, 2009 @08:51AM (#471116)

Wikipedia says Ada:

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