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2. How to zip folds: A library of fold transformers (streams)

   okmij.org (Jul 1 2008) Explore Article

   ...on the straightforward encoding of multiple-world semantics of modalities. The problem was posed by John McCarthy as follows. We pick two numbers a and b, so that a>=b and both numbers are within the range [2,99].... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Chung-chieh Shan   Scheme   John McCarthy

3. Chapter 1. Why functional programming? Why Haskell?

   Real World Haskell (May 1 2008) Explore Article

   ...he first person to successfully capture the idea of using the lambda calculus to write software was John McCarthy, who created Lisp in 1958. During the 1960s, computer scientists began to recognise and study the i... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Peter Landin   Guido van Rossum   Christopher Strachey

4. Church's Thesis and Functional Programming -- David Turner

   Computing at Kent (Mar 22 2008) Explore Article

   ...53, 1936. P. J. Landin “The Next 700 Programming Languages”, CACM , 9(3):157–165, March 1966. John McCarthy“Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine”, CACM , 3(4):184�... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Chalmers University of Technology   Jean-Yves Girard   Christopher Strachey

5. A .net Bridge for Haskell: Dancing with the Devil

   Java SSH for weill (Mar 16 2008) Explore Article

   ...f the 2004 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell, pages 22–32, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM Press. [17] John McCarthy. LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual. The MIT Press, 1962. ISBN 0262130114. [18] Erik Meijer and Sigbjor... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Benjamin C. Pierce   Microsoft Research   Erik Meijer

6. Can Your Programming Language Do MapReduce?

   Phil Windley's Technometria (Mar 7 2008) Explore Article

   Joel Spolsky has a great, understandable description of what MapReduce is and why you might care. He also speaks to the benefit of learning functional programming, even if your first job interviewer isn't going to ask you "Have you even programmed in {Lisp, Scheme, Haskell}?" We're all going to care a lot more about things like MapReduce as the number of cores on a chip goes up exponentially. (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   MapReduce   Haskell   John McCarthy

7. Algorithms and Data Structures

   okmij.org (Feb 25 2008) Explore Article

   ...on the straightforward encoding of multiple-world semantics of modalities. The problem was posed by John McCarthy as follows. We pick two numbers a and b, so that a>=b and both numbers are within the range [2,99].... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Chung-chieh Shan   Scheme   John McCarthy

8. Unqualified Reservations: What's wrong with CS research

   Unqualified Reservations (Feb 25 2008) Explore Article

   ... not a PL researcher. In other words, he is in a class with Dennis Ritchie, Alan Kay, Brendan Eich, John McCarthy, John Warnock, John Ousterhout, Bjarne Stroustrup, Rob Pike, Larry Wall, Ted Codd, Tim Berners-Lee,... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Dennis Ritchie   Bell Labs

9. André Pang (ozone): Dick Gabriel on A Lot More Than Lisp

   Algorithm.com.au (Feb 24 2008) Explore Article

   ...in “Erlang processes”), what AI research was like in the 1960s and ’70s, and the story of how John McCarthy and his students implemented the first Lisp interpreter in one night.A wonderful interview, and wel... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   John McCarthy   Scheme

10. defmacro - Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

    defmacro (Feb 1 2008) Explore Article

    ... a Turing machine. For the time being Alonzo Church was out of luck. In late 1950s an MIT professor John McCarthy (also a Princeton graduate) developed interest in Alonzo Church's work. In 1958 he unveiled a List ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Ericsson   Erlang   Alonzo Church

11. No future for functional programming in 2008 - Scala, F# and Nu

    Stephans Blog (Jan 21 2008) Explore Article

    ...tional programming, it was a fringe language from the beginning. There was a golden age of Fortran. John McCarthy - no not THAT McCarthy - invented Lisp back in 1958. From there functional programming gained much ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   John McCarthy   Haskell   Erlang

12. history.pdf (application/pdf Object)

    Microsoft Research Home (Jan 11 2008) Explore Article

    ... curiosity. Even at that stage, functional programming languages had a long history, beginning with John McCarthy’s invention of Lisp in the late 1950s (McCarthy, 1960). In the 1960s, Peter Landin and Christophe... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Ennals   Unicode   Ross Paterson

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