Roderick Burstall was one of three founders of the Edinburgh Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science. He was an early and influential proponent of functional programming, pattern matching, and list comprehension, and is is best-known for his work with Robin Popplestone on POP, an innovative programming language developed at Edinburgh around 1970, and later work with John Darlington on NPL. Wikipedia
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I retired in April 2000 as an Emeritus Professor and read my University email only infrequently. Please excuse slow replies. I am living mostly in France and visit Edinburgh University from time to time. My private mail address - not for circulars plea www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/rb/
I retired in April 2000 as an Emeritus Professor and read my University email only infrequently. Please excuse slow replies. I am living mostly in France and visit Edinburgh University from time to time. My private mail address - not for circulars plea cs.anu.edu.au/seminars/seminars96/