Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs John Backus IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose Communi

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs John Backus IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose Communications of the ACM, Volume 21, Number 8, August 1978 http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf