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by tengwar2 1280 days ago
It was also common to invent "tiny languages" (e.g. PIC) and domain-specific languages (e.g. Awk, Yacc) to a greater extent than now. There was no real community to share work. I heard of OO and C++, but didn't really understand it, so when I tried to make my own I made functions that dispatched on the type of the first argument, then another version which could dispatch on the types of any the arguments. We would call this data-oriented now. I suspect that a lot of new stuff arose from such misunderstandings.