Peter J. Landin

Peter J. Landin is a Informaticien Britannique. He invented the Machine SECD and the computer programming language ISWIM. It has defined the rule of Indentation like syntax ( off-side rule in English) and the syntactic term of Sucre invented. Another expression of Landin often recopied in data-processing papers is " 700 next languages of programmation". It is said that it was a typo and that should have been " 100 next languages of programmation".

Landin was very active in the middle of the year 1960, when it worked with Christopher Strachey. It is now professor with Queen Mary, University off London.

References

  • Landin, P.J., The next 700 programming languages. Communications off the ACM , 9 (3): 157-166, 1966.

External bonds

  • Landin' S website

  • '' Program Checking and Semantics: The Early Work '' meeting, 2001

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