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John Backus: turd pusher

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-10 18:22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_programming_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Von_Neumann_programming_languages

Backus tried to pass this off as scientific, but he was really passing turdware onto unsuspecting goyim.

It was the foundation for funding a whole class of programming language: the functional language with lazy evaluation.

Haskell and ``FP'' are also ``high-level abstract isomorphic copies of von Neumann architectures''.

declarations ↔ computer storage cells
pattern matching ↔ computer test-and-jump instructions
lazy evaluation ↔ fetching, storing instructions
expressions ↔ memory reference and arithmetic instructions.

The ``von Neumann bottleneck'' should be considered a financial bottleneck for ``PLT'' ``research''. ``Eliminating'' it with FP allows researchers to get grants for almost anything, without having to demonstrate any real-world benefits, because they say Backus already demonstrated them.

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/history.pdf
The genesis of Haskell
In 1978 John Backus delivered his Turing Award lecture, “Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?” (Backus, 1978a), which positioned functional programming as a radical attack on the whole programming enterprise, from hardware architecture upwards. This prominent endorsement from a giant in the field—Backus led the team that developed Fortran, and invented Backus Naur Form (BNF)—put functional programming on the map in a new way, as a practical programming tool rather than a mathematical curiosity.

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-19 0:00

>>27
It does, in fact, teach you about the interaction between dicks and blenders.

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