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1980's: New Paradigms

• Ada: DoD, long committee-based development, large & complex, packages, tasks, generics, exceptions, from real-time to payroll apps.

• C++: OOP in a popular, widespread language, often seen as a "hybrid"

• Standard ML, Hope, Miranda, Haskell: functional languages

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