Rodney Martineau Burstall (11 November 1934 - 13 February 2025) was a British computer scientist who was one of four founders of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
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1. Wikipedia: Rod Burstall
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1934-11-11
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11 November 1934
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2025-02-13
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Burstall died on 13 February 2025
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was a British computer scientist
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Rodney Martineau Burstall
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Programming Languages Achievement Award.
POP-2 (Wikipedia)
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POP-2 (also called POP2) is a programming language developed around 1970 from the earlier language POP-1 (developed by Robin Popplestone in 1968, originally named COWSEL) by Robin Popplestone and Rod Burstall at the University of Edinburgh.
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