Thu Feb 11 14:53:33 EST 2010

Backus vs Dijkstra

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I  am  reading  John  Backus Turing Award speech from 1977, which
currently seems to be a  lamenting  of  imperative  (von  Neuman)
style programming languages.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf

To which, EJD provides a response (which I have not read yet).

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD692.html

I  am reading them both and will provide some thoughts of my own.

There is some brief discussion about it at:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020230

update: I forgot to mention where I actually  first  noticed  the
Backus speech:

http://conal.net/blog/posts/can-functional...

until next time...


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