Comment by DaniFong
18 years ago
I don't think that's 100% true. There are some good new ideas emerging due to new machine models: Erlang for example, which is like the machine language of concurrency. And Haskell wasn't really anticipated by the 70's, nor is much of Fortress -- especially the methods they're using for parallelism.
Erlang isn't exactly new. Development started over 20 years ago and it has been open source for 10 years.
http://www.erlang.org/course/history.html
Sure, but that's around 20 years after the 70's, and the usefulness of the ideas wasn't well known until some time after that.