Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?
Recorded by Eric Normand. Published: November 9, 2020. Updated: January 11, 2021.
This is an episode of The Eric Normand Podcast.
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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.