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The Dream of the Spinning Dancer
Friday, October 12, 2012
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This flashback was suggested by Cristi Stoica's "Spinning Dancer" post
on an earlier Columbus day.
Fans of Aldous Huxley may enjoy other posts tagged Petri Pictoris.
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Monday, May 19, 2025
Language “from a well-mapped space” *
See the post "Parallelisms" from the seventh day of 2025.
* Quote from the classic Peter J. Landin paper of 1966,
"The Next 700 Programming Languages"
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
Language Models History: Points in a Space, 1966
Update from 10 minutes later:
Summary of the 1966 Landin paper in a Google AI Overview —
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In his 1966 paper "The Next 700 Programming Languages," Peter Landin explored the potential for a large and diverse family of programming languages, arguing for a principled approach to language design focusing on well-defined frameworks and a "well-mapped space" of possible languages. He introduced ISWIM (If You See What I Mean), an abstract language that served as a foundational concept for functional programming. [1, 2]
Here's a more detailed explanation:
In essence, Landin's "Next 700 Programming Languages" paper was a seminal work that envisioned a future where programming languages would be designed more systematically and in a more principled manner, paving the way for the development of various functional and dataflow programming paradigms. [1, 2, 6]
AI responses may include mistakes.
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Two links from the homepage of the Crary of the cmu.edu link above —
A Man For All Seasons
The Gods of the Copybook Headings .
Other material related to the name Crary —
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