Peter Landin
British computer scientist (1930–2009) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter John Landin (5 June 1930 – 3 June 2009[1][2]) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to the development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.
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Peter Landin | |
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Born | Peter John Landin (1930-06-05)5 June 1930 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Died | 3 June 2009(2009-06-03) (aged 78) |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Education | Clare College, Cambridge University |
Known for | ISWIM, J operator, SECD machine, off-side rule, syntactic sugar |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science, education |
Institutions | Christopher Strachey, computer consultant Univac Massachusetts Institute of Technology Queen Mary University of London |
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