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Peter Landin
KindPerson
Born1930
Died2009
StatusDead
FieldProgramming languages
Sourcewww.cs.cmu.edu ↗

British computer scientist � the SECD abstract machine and 'The Next 700 Programming Languages,' the paper that invented syntactic sugar and prefigured ML and Haskell.

Created The Next 700 Programming Languages

Invented the ISWIM language, the SECD machine, and 'the next 700 programming languages' (1966) — the paper that argued all languages are one.\n\n'The mechanical evaluation of expressions' (1964) defined functional programming before the word existed; the field's unacknowledged giant.

Sources

  1. cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Landin