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History of John Backus's functional programming project (draft)
***** DRAFT ***** Paul McJones paul@mcjones.org https://mcjones.org/dustydecks Last modified 18 July 2026 Abstract John Backus explored a sequence of applicative, functional and function-level languages starting before 1969 and continuing until he retired in 1991. The goal of this project is to preserve the surviving materials from this research and to put them into context.
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