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The Minds Behind Functional Programming – 7 People Redefining Software
Functional programming grew from a meeting of mathematical function theory and practical language design. McCarthy made recursive symbolic functions executable in Lisp; Landin connected programming languages to lambda calculus; Backus challenged the von Neumann style; Milner, Turner, Peyton Jones, and Wadler built the typed, lazy, and practical traditions that made functional ideas central to modern language design.
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