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Nah, not much changed in the past 40-50 years; between the two, Lisp and Smalltalk spearheaded pretty much all the stuff that was added to other programming languages in subsequent decades, and some of the things yet to be added.

The main thing that changed about programming is the social/political/bureaucratic side.



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