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Peter Landin

British computer scientist (1930-2009) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 78

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 that is essential to the development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.

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