Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff

Name: Procedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff
Description: Kevlin Henney argues that procedural programming never went away despite later paradigms such as OO and functional. He traces the history of structured programming and shows where procedural thinking still lives in modern code and why it matters for readability.

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Kevlin Henney argues that procedural programming never went away despite later paradigms such as OO and functional. He traces the history of structured programming and shows where procedural thinking still lives in modern code and why it matters for readability.

HN people recommend it as a fascinating history lesson showing that the field keeps rediscovering ideas from the 1960s.

7 Hacker News mentions · 2018–2021

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Software architecture & design
Programming language design

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