Peter Landin

Peter Landin

Peter John Landin (5 June 1930, Sheffield – 3 June 2009) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.

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