defcon79
defcon79
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Computer science is the art of reinventing history every 15–20 years.

The old Smalltalk/Lisp beards were doing this long ago. C# had functional features, and things like async/await, and soon Observables, that will be in EcmaScript.

Like they say, ‘shared mutable state’ and ‘cache invalidation’ are the only real hard problems in CS :) (ok maybe add CAP)

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