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One thing that came up often in my PL theory classes: "cutting edge" features of popular programming languages lag cutting edge features of research languages b
by z1mm32m4n 9y ago
One thing that came up often in my PL theory classes: "cutting edge" features of popular programming languages lag cutting edge features of research languages by about 30 years.
The interesting consequence is: if you want to look for The Next Big Thing in programming languages, just go back 20 years!