Christopher Strachey was a British computer scientist and a founding figure of the Programming Research Group at Oxford University. With Dana Scott he developed denotational semantics, a mathematical framework for precisely describing what a computer program means independent of any particular machine, which became foundational to the theory of programming languages. Strachey also carried out early work on time-sharing systems and macro-based programming techniques in Britain during the 1960s.
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Christopher S. Strachey ( STRAY-chee; 16 November 1916-18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist.
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