Christopher Strachey: Recollections of His Influence

  • Authors:
  • Mike Gordon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, U.K. mjcg@cl.cam.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

My early research was inspired by the mathematical semanticsof Scott and Strachey. Two such topics, recounted in this paper, werethe fixed-point analysis of pointer loops and the expressibility of astyle of functional programming introduced by Barron and Strachey.