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		The Philosophies of Software Languages, from Plankalkül to C (welcometothejungle.co)
		3 points by behnamoh on June 20, 2019 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

behnamoh on June 20, 2019 [–]

Also:

"The Philosophies of Software Languages, from Smalltalk to Perl": https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/philosophies-p...

AnimalMuppet on June 20, 2019 | | [–]

And:

"... from Java to JavaScript": https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/philosophies-s...

"... from Go to Elixir": https://www.welcometothejungle.co/fr/articles/languages-soft...

AnimalMuppet on June 20, 2019 | | [–]

A nit on this article: I'm pretty sure that C++ had a standard library before the STL.

And a surprise (at least to me): Haskell is 32 years old!

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