David Turner Obituary by Sarah Nicholas Fri 24 Nov 2023
This was in The Guardian: David Turner obituary , only eight days after I posted David Turner Talking About Sixty Years of Functional Programming History : This talk was given in London in 2017: See Turner, D. A. "Some History of Functional Programming Languages" also John Hughes - Why Functional Programming Matters and David MacQueen's talk at ICFP 2015 in Numberphile - Sophie Maclean on the Catalan Numbers . At 10:30 This whole discussion abut combinator reduction is especially interesting. I didn't know Arthur Norman had tried building hardware for combinator machines. I'll look that up: maybe start here A.C. Norman Faster combinator reduction using stock hardware in LFP '88: Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming. At 26:25 on the ISWIM virtual machine implemented in the PAL compacting garbage collector?! This work Reynolds and others did was at MIT in Masecheusetts and Argonne National Laboratory Illinois. Did
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