John Hughes (computer scientist)

Not to be confused with John F. Hughes (computer scientist).

R. John M. Hughes is a computer scientist who does research in the field of programming languages and the author of several influential research papers on the subject, including "Why Functional Programming Matters".^[1] He is a professor in the department of Computing Science at the Chalmers University of Technology. Hughes is a member of the Functional Programming group at Chalmers, and much of his research relates to the Haskell programming language.

He is also one of the developers of QuickCheck.

References

^ Hughes, John (1989). "Why Functional Programming Matters". Computer Journal 32 (2): 98–107. doi:10.1093/comjnl/32.2.98. http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html. Retrieved May 6, 2010.

External links

John Hughes's home page

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