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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ISWIM (If you See What I Mean) is an abstract computer programming language (or a family of languages) devised by Peter Landin and first described in his article "The Next 700 Programming Languages", published in the Communications of the ACM in 1966. Although
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