News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Great Works in Programming Languages (2004). Parent comment

Re:Great Works in Programming Languages (2004) by dscrd on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:49AM (#5873511)
Perhaps it's still questionable whether his work will have any actual effect on the industry as a whole, as opposed to just academia.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Great Works in Programming Languages (2004) by octo_t on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:20AM (#5873868)
Are you serious? SPJ's work has been incredibly instrumental in bringing functional features (such as LINQ) to C#

See: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/simon-peyton-jones-about-mai...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Great Works in Programming Languages (2004) by eru on Friday June 14, 2013 @12:40AM (#5878338)
As opposed to the other theoretical papers in the list?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Great Works in Programming Languages (2004) by wbsun on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:56AM (#5873754)
Good point!
[ Parent | on HN ]