Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages

This paper forms the substance of a course of lectures given at the International Summer School in Computer Programming at Copenhagen in August, 1967. The lectures were originally given from notes and the paper was written after the course was finished. In spite of this, and only partly because of the shortage of time, the paper still retains many of the shortcomings of a lecture course. The chief of these are an uncertainty of aim--it is never quite clear what sort of audience there will be for such lectures--and an associated switching from formal to informal modes of presentation which may well be less acceptable in print than it is natural in the lecture room. For these (and other) faults, I apologise to the reader. There are numerous references throughout the course to CPL [1

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: LISP
• Authors: Christopher Strachey
• Keywords: International Summer School, Lecture, LISP 2000, Paper