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> Static typing and duck typing both date back to the 1950s. You may have heard of Lisp.

> The last new significant thing invented in programming was OOP in the 1990s.

OOP is from the 1960s (Simula 67 is generally recognized as the first OOP language.) Probably not actually the last new significant thing invented in programming, though.


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