Whiggish bullshit. Functional code and GC were invented in 1959. Some level of static typing was de rigeur in most application-development languages after assembly and before the scripting boom starting in the late 80s. In Coders At Work Frances Allen bemoaned the effect C's popularity had on automated program analysis since 1970:
> C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.
"Progress" in CS remains fad-driven pop culture churn.
> C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.
"Progress" in CS remains fad-driven pop culture churn.