Paradigms Without Progress: Kuhnian Reflections on Programming Practice

Nov 19 2020

Borrowing from Thomas Kuhn, Robert Floyd introduced the notion of a programming paradigm. Today, paradigms are constantly debated. What might Kuhn tell us about this sad state of affairs? What can Programming learn from Philosophy?.

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 Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

May 21 2020

One of my all time favorite talks of AKay's, given in 2015.

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 GOTO 2017 • Programming Across Paradigms • Anjana Vakil

Dec 1 2017

What's in a programming paradigm? How did the major paradigms come to be, and why? Once we've sworn our love to one paradigm, does a program written under any other still smell as sweet? Can functional programmers learn anything from [...]

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