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Encyclopedia > Peter Landin

Peter Landin is a British computer scientist. He is responsible for inventing the SECD machine and the ISWIM programming language, and for coining the term "syntactic sugar". Another phrase originating with Landin is "The next 700 ...".


Landin was most active in the mid-1960s, when he worked with Christopher Strachey.


External references

  • Landin's web site (http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~peterl/)

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Citations: A correspondence between ALGOL--60 and Church's lambda notation - Landin (ResearchIndex) (1986 words)
Landin, A Correspondence Between ALGOL 60 and Church's Lambda-Notation, Comm.
Landin represents a stream as a pair of the head element, and a nullary function representing the rest of the stream.
Landin, P.J.: A Correspondence Between ALGOL 60 and Church's LambdaNotation: Part I. Communications of the ACM 8, 2 (1965) 89--101.
Peter J. Landin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (173 words)
He is responsible for inventing the SECD machine and the ISWIM programming language, defining the Landin off-side rule and for coining the term syntactic sugar.
Another phrase originating with Landin is "The next 700...", although reputedly this was a typing error and should have been "The next 100...".
Landin was most active in the mid-1960s, when he worked with Christopher Strachey.
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