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Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Name: Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks
Author: Dmitry Zinoviev

Rediscovering the Tools That Built the Future

Dmitry Zinoviev,

English
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eBook - ePub

Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Rediscovering the Tools That Built the Future

Dmitry Zinoviev,

About this book

Seven old languages; dozens of new ideas that can help shape the way we think about programming.

Have you noticed that most programming languages look the same nowadays? We've become complacent; we've fallen into a rut. We're no longer innovating; we're tinkering at the margins.

Fifty years ago, things were less settled. Smart people exercised their imaginations and came up with programming paradigms that will blow you away. Classes and objects, first seen in the 1960s with Simula, are still in use. But what about a language with no variables? Or one where the units of computation are independent actors? Or where every single character can express a complex operation? Imagine a language where the only flow control comes from matching patterns, or one that uses sets as its major datatype. Or how about a textual language based on macros?

These seven old, obscure languages will open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today.

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