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Strachey: school master, language designer, colleague

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Strachey 100: an Oxford Computing Pioneer
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In this panel discussion, three people who knew Christopher Strachey in different contexts talk about their memories of him.
Michael Jackson discusses being taught by Strachey as a boy at Harrow, David Hartley talks about work with Strachey on the programming language CPL, and Roger Penrose remembers working with Strachey at the National Research Development Corporation and introducing him to lambda calculus.

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Strachey 100: an Oxford Computing Pioneer
People
Roger Penrose
Michael Jackson
David Hartley
Keywords
History of computing
1950s school life
programming languages
compilers
lambda calculus
National Research Development Corporation
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 26/06/2017
Duration: 00:44:11

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