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Peter Landin

Also Known As Peter John Landin · Peter J. Landin
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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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Birth Year
1930 1
Birth Date
1930-06-05 1
Death Year
2009 1
Death Date
2009-06-03 1
Nationality
British 1
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1. Wikipedia: Peter Landin
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Peter John Landin (5 June 1930-3 June 2009) was a British computer scientist.
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