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1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 16:03:10 EDT Don Romano (alt)

   While hardware platforms, operating systems and languages are released at a break-neck pace, programming as a discipline moves very slowly.

   The vast majority of concepts we use in programming languages today were invented 40-60 years ago, and we're still playing catch-up with Lisp from 1958.

   We're stuck in a world of procedural OOP software and can't change course. Our best languages gather dust in a corner and hardly anyone learns them or uses them.

   It makes no sense.

   1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 16:12:39 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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      We should be teaching our most advanced programming languages to novices. A functional language would probably make more sense to the average person than a procedural one due to familiarity with mathematical functions, for example.

      We should also start businesses that develop software in these languages, to create demand for them in the market.

      If no one is willing to do this, the world will continue to write software in the same old and ugly ways.