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What's Functional Programming All About? (www.lihaoyi.com)
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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The functional paradigm of language design is the oldest syntactic and semantic tradition in computer science

Pretty sure spaghetti code is older.

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also, structured programming was developed in the 1950ies, manifest by ALGOL being published in 1958.. McCarthy's first publication on LISP was surprisingly close to that, in 1960.

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