Some History of Functional Programming Languages - David Turner (Lambda Days 2017)

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At Lambda Days 2017 David will talk about some of the history of functional programming languages and how it reflects what are still live issues of language design.
Topics will include:
what did LISP and Algol 60 each get wrong and get right back in 1960
the advantages and disadvantages of lazy evaluation
run time typing (as in Erlang) versus static typing (as in Haskell)

[@Tattvadarzin.]

David taught me Lambda Calculus and SASL when I was an undergraduate at St Andrews in about 1973. I was a PhD student in the same department and I was his colleague when I became a lecturer there. I ended up teaching SASL to St Andrews Arts students in a course on Information Processing. That was an interesting challenge. He was a self effacing man who took time to explain things. Watching this makes me realise how in that respect he changed not at all.

[@dandan7884]

great talk! very enlightening!

[@rayohauno]

Excelent talk!

[@dragonfly3139]

interesting talk thank you so much for sharing this

[@Tattvadarzin.]

David Turner taught me Lambda Calculus and S@SL

[@tristrambrelstaff4850]

SASL was also being used at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1986-87.

[@117degreess]

This is a great talk, thank you.

[@morthim]

2^7 -1. who else finds it satisfying to be the liker of a video equal to a 2 power value?

[@derekfrost8991]

I don't use Miranda because of the license, but the help files that came with it changed the way I program forever. Turner is a genius, but it's quite shocking he didn't know that the second ml standard was 97 and the Haskell standard was 98. How can you devote your life to functional programming and not know that?? :)