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crisis in computer programming
Computer programming has NOT advanced in ~60 years! [2019/07,2022/04] The last major advance in computer programming was object-oriented programming, introduced or formalized by the programming language SIMULA. But that was back in 1962. (ALGOL-68 is notable by influencing almost every PL since 1968.) Now in 2019, computer programming has not advanced, not fundamentally. Software is still written primarily in SIMULA-influenced C++ which itself is ~40 years. Object-oriented syntax of C++ facilitated developing programs more complex than could be written in older PLs -- for a while -- now programs have become far more complex than C++ can abstract. Tyrantula web browser | 127 files | 14,154 lines-of-code | based on webkitgtk-2.24.2 mozilla-19980331-unix | 4,673 files | 1,328,769 lines-of-code | webkitgtk-2.24.2 | 17,588 files | 3,947,618 lines-of-code | Firefox-76 | 284,017 files | 42,067,556 lines-of-code | next advance in computer programmingStay tuned... |