Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Peter Landin FTW, once again

The great Oleg Kiselyov reports yet more things that Peter Landin figured out before Sesame Street existed, like the state monad, world-passing, and treating the semi-colon as a concatenation operator.  And more.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-December/087788.html

Peter Landin was, like, the Da Vinci of programming.