Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16
I originally missed this as back then I was in the midst of managing trouble in my parental family, unaware I was already having rectum cancer. Then things went fast, not even including the Covid-19 years, so I was glad last year I got reminded of this mid-2019 article:
[Wayback/Archive] Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum writes a lot of interesting things on programming paradigms, starting with
In his rare 1994 book “Object-Oriented Programming In C” Axel Tobias Schreiner explains how to do inheritance, class methods, class hierarchies, and even how to raise exceptions using nothing else than pure, simple, pointer arithmetic-filled, ANSI C.
then arguing basically most of not all modern languages share the majority of programming paradigms and all these paradigms are repeats of the past:
These days, we are using the offsprings of multiple programming paradigms having unprotected sex with one another in a thoughtful orgy. PHP, C#, Perl, C++ and even Visual Basic have all closures, lambdas or anonymous functions now. F# and Scala can instantiate any class included in their corresponding vendor-provided frameworks. JavaScript implements functions as objects with a single method.call(). Haskell comonads are actually objects. Swift 1.0 implemented instance methods as curried functions.But none of this is new. Smalltalk, arguably the precursor of object orientation, hadcollectandselectmethods which were the grandparents of our more commonmapandfilterfunctional friends.
What sets modern languages apart is that they the majority covers all the paradigms you might need, just differing in how well they support the paradigm-du-jour.
It means programming language wars should have been a thing of the past for about two decades now.
Please let that sink in.
Oh: if you look for that ANSI C book, here it is: [Wayback/Archive] https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Via: [Wayback/Archive] De Programmatica Ipsum: “”In his rare 1994 book “Object…” – mas.to
--jeroen
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