Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages

Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages were an influential set of lecture notes written by Christopher Strachey for the International Summer School in Computer Programming at Copenhagen in August, 1967. It introduced much programming language terminology still in use today, including R-values, L-values, parametric polymorphism, and ad hoc polymorphism. They were reprinted in 2000 in a special issue of Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation in memory of Strachey.

Bibliography

• Mosses, Peter D. (2000). "A Foreword to 'Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages'". Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation 13: 7–9. doi:10.1023/A:1010048229036. 
• Strachey, Christopher (2000). "Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages". Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation 13: 11–49. doi:10.1023/A:1010000313106. 

See also

• CPL (programming language)

External links

• Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation Volume 13, Issue 1/2 (April 2000) Special Issue in memory of Christopher Strachey
• Fundamental Concepts In Programming Languages at the Portland Pattern Repository
• ACM Digital Library
• Great Works in Programming Languages. Collected by Benjamin C. Pierce.