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Yes, 1975 IIRC. Standard ML was published in 1990, so that is probably the source of the confusion. It's a bit sad that the foundations of modern programming l

Yes, 1975 IIRC. Standard ML was published in 1990, so that is probably the source of the confusion. It's a bit sad that the foundations of modern programming languages were basically known by 1975 (either via Standard ML or Scheme) but the majority of languages in common use (mostly of a 1990s vintage) didn't learn those lessons. Thankfully that seems to be changing with more recent languages (Go being the exception).

pjmlp 7y ago
And CLU. Having researched a bit in the 60's and 70's systems programming languages, I would assert that the same issues with Go apply to C (language design vs existing competition), and they only got lucky because Bell Labs was forbidden to profit from UNIX.