Concurrent Affairs: Procedural Programming Unlocked - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2022

Many programmers assume that procedural programming is a term of insult, or is only relevant when discussing technical debt, or is a paradigm relegated to the past. And when it comes to concurrency, the prevalence of threads running riot through mutable shared state can be at laid the doorstep of procedural thinking. But unstructured threads were not the procedural paradigm's only response to the question of concurrency. In addition to a sprinkling of functional hand-me-downs, many trends in modern languages and libraries bear more than a passing resemblance to their procedural forebears. From cobegin to coroutines, from channels to pipelines, many mechanisms of the past have been pulled into the present. This talk goes back to the sixties and seventies, to a time before the words 'programming' and 'paradigm' had met, to add some history and make sense of current trends. Check out more of our featured speakers and talks at https://www.ndcconferences.com https://ndclondon.com/