<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra">For those who may be interested here is another curiosity:<br><a href="http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy" target="_blank">http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">wherein McCarthy attributes the idea of functional programming to Fortran and Backus  -- I must say I find that striking -- how things have turned in 50 years!<br clear="all"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That makes sense. See Backus's language “FP” and “Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs” (<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf">http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf</a> ).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">All this is towards a lecture on programming paradigms that I am preparing.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Good luck! :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Sean</div></div>