Peter Landin | |
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| Born | Peter John Landin 5 June 1930 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 3 June 2009 (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 |
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.
- ^ Peter Landin, Lambda the Ultimate, 4 June 2009.
- ^ Bornat 2009a