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In the book named Binding Time, Mark Halpern wrote of Backus's Turing Award lecture ("Can Programming Be Liberated From the Von Neumann Style")that Backus seeme
by cafard 5y ago
In the book named Binding Time, Mark Halpern wrote of Backus's Turing Award lecture ("Can Programming Be Liberated From the Von Neumann Style")that Backus seemed to be embarrassed that a computer worked by changing its internal states.
- guerrilla 5y agoIf computations are not instantaneous then how else would it work? I thought his thesis was rather the same as this blog post- that programs should be composable mathematical expressions rather than bit-twiddling word-shoveling statements- but it's been forever since I read that and I probably didn't appreciate it at the time.
- alfiedotwtf 5y agoWe should yell the computer what we want, and let the computer figure it out. This is the promise of declarative languages