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This is a conservative timeline of denotative-programing and related articles.
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before 2000
- 1966-03 (published date) The Next 700 Programming Languages - Peter Landin
- "The word `denotative` seems more appropriate than nonprocedural, declarative or functional. The antithesis of denotative is `imperative`."
- 1978-08 (published date) Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs - John Backus
- "Denotational semantics and its foundations provide an extremely helpful mathematical understanding of the domain and function spaces implicit in programs."
year 2010
- 2010-01 Is Haskell a purely functional language? - Conal Elliott
- "When I bash monadic I/O, my real complaint isn’t with the technical invention–which I like. Rather, I’m cranky about confusion and misleading communication, and about distraction from what we originally meant by 'functional programming'–from what I call 'denotational programming'.
- I don’t mind that we haven’t yet been liberated from the von Neumann model. As long as we remember we haven’t.
- As long as we keep on searching."
- other articles:
year 2016
- 2016-10 Denotational Design - from meanings to programs (slides) - Conal Elliott
year 2017
- 2017-10 Why do our programs need to read input and write output? - Gabriella Gonzalez
year 2018
- 2018-07 My growing Anti-IO-Monad Obsession - Steve Krouse
year 2019
- 2019-11 The Misunderstood Roots of FRP Can Save Programming - Steve Krouse
year 2022
- 2022-05 The Lost Elegance of Computation - Conal Elliott
- 2022-08 Denotational Design - Conal Elliott
- 2022-09 (Research invitation and resources) - Conal Elliott
- "If you're familiar with my work or you've listened to the interviews linked above, you'll know that I prefer denotational to operational perspectives."
year 2023
- 2023-06 Building a Future of Scalable Reliable and Efficient Computing - Conal Elliott
- 2023-08 Why imperative code is worse than functional code - Jaro Reinders
- 2023-08 Timely Computation - Conal Elliott