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John Backus on the Assignment Statement
Posted by Proctor in Clojure, Food For Thought, Functional Programming, Lisp, Quotes, Software Design on August 1, 2012
The assignment statement is the von Neumann bottle-neck of programming languages and keeps us thinking in word-at-a-time terms in much the same way the computer’s bottleneck does.
John Backus, 1977
ACM Turing Award Lecture,
Communications of the ACM
August 1978, Volume 2, Number 8
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