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FP Dead

FP
KindProgramming language
Appeared1977
Ended1985
StatusDead
CreatorJohn Backus / IBM
FamilyIndependent
Sourcedl.acm.org ↗

Backus's Turing-lecture language — the man who built FORTRAN declaring we should stop programming with variables. The seed of point-free style.

Created by John Backus

Backus's FP (1978) — the language from 'Can Programming Be Liberated' — proposed pure function-level programming: no variables, only combining forms over values.\n\nIt was a manifesto as much as a language; its influence is on Haskell, point-free style, and the idea that programming could be algebraic.

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Sources

  1. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359579
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP_(programming_language)