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