{"slug": "the-level-of-progress-in-programming-language-design", "title": "The level of progress in programming language design", "summary": "Shortly after the creation of the first programming language, its author declared the paradigm flawed and advocated for functional programming instead. It states that this occurred 46 years ago, yet the same original paradigm remains in use today.", "body_md": "The level of progress in programming language design\nThe level of progress in programming language design: Shortly after the first ever programming language was created, it’s author said that the language’s whole paradigm is flawed and we should do functional programming instead*.\nThat was 46 years ago.\nWe still use the same paradigm.\nWritten on May 27, 2025", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-level-of-progress-in-programming-language-design", "canonical_source": "http://abuseofnotation.github.io/pl-design/", "published_at": "2025-05-27 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-22 11:42:05.876876+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["research"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-level-of-progress-in-programming-language-design", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-level-of-progress-in-programming-language-design.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-level-of-progress-in-programming-language-design.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-level-of-progress-in-programming-language-design.jsonld"}}