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An Accidental Simula User

Thu Aug 23 15:46:00 2007

Luca Cardelli is one of the big guns in programming language theory--consistently producing interesting and important results over several decades. His paper (with Peter Wagner) "On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism" which I read as a graduate student deeply influenced me. Cardelli is now at Microsoft Research. He has recent slides (from ECOOP 2007) about his journey into the theory of objects called An Accidental Simula User that are a good read for anyone interested in object-oriented programming. Here's the abstract: It was a simple choice, really, on an IBM 370 in the 70's, between APL, Fortran, Lisp
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