Peter John Landin (5 June 1930 – 3 June 2009) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used...
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J operator (redirect from Peter Landin's J operator)
In computer science, Peter Landin's J operator is a programming construct that post-composes a lambda expression with the continuation to the current lambda-context...
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defines the bounds of a code block via indentation. The term was coined by Peter Landin, possibly as a pun on the offside law in association football. An off-side...
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computer programming language (or a family of languages) devised by Peter Landin and first described in his article "The Next 700 Programming Languages"...
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Eric Hehner Tony Hoare Jørn Jensen Katz^ Peter Landin Tom Maibaum Conor McBride John McCarthy Carroll Morgan Peter Naur Maurice Nivat John E. L. Peck Perlis^...
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Language Scheme" for its standards documents in homage to ALGOL. As Peter Landin noted,[citation needed] ALGOL was the first language to combine seamlessly...
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Eric Hehner Tony Hoare Jørn Jensen Katz^ Peter Landin Tom Maibaum Conor McBride John McCarthy Carroll Morgan Peter Naur Maurice Nivat John E. L. Peck Perlis^...
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Dewar Dijkstra^ Gerhard Goos Michael Guy Hoare^ Cornelis H. A. Koster Peter Landin Charles H. Lindsey Barry J. Mailloux McCarthy^ Lambert Meertens Naur^...
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Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor...
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Eric Hehner Tony Hoare Jørn Jensen Katz^ Peter Landin Tom Maibaum Conor McBride John McCarthy Carroll Morgan Peter Naur Maurice Nivat John E. L. Peck Perlis^...
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