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David Turner Alive

David Turner
KindPerson
Born1946
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcemiranda.org.uk ↗

Designed SASL, KRC, and Miranda — the lazy pure-functional languages that shaped Haskell.

Created Miranda

Designed SASL, KRC, and Miranda — the lazy functional languages that proved pure lazy programming worked — and Miranda became Haskell's direct inspiration.\n\nHis 1981 'The Semantic Elegance of Applicative Languages' is the genre's best argument.

Sources

  1. miranda.org.uk/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Turner_(computer_scientist)