EPISODE · Nov 9, 2020 · 1H 55M
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?
from The Eric Normand Podcast · host Eric Normand
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What this episode covers
In 1977, John Backus presented an algebraic vision of programming that departed from the von Neumann fetch-and-store semantics. This seminal paper has influenced functional programming in many ways. In this episode, I read excerpts from and comment on John Backus's 1977 Turing Award Lecture paper Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs.
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