John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future

Posted by protagonist_h on Monday October 24, 2011 @06:38PM
from the www-formal.stanford.edu dept.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/elephant.pdf

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Re:John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future by wedesoft on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @06:21AM (#3153535)

My favourite quote from his talk about 'Elephant 2000': "In 'Elephant' the programmer would write nothing about an array or database for storing reservations. Arrays of course would be necessary but the compiler would invent them."

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