Rod Burstall

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Rod Burstall
Residence	Scotland, France
Nationality	British
Fields	computer scientist
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Doctoral students	Gordon Plotkin, Zhaohui Luo, Don Sannella, John Darlington

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.

Rod retired in 2000, becoming Professor Emeritus, and now spends most of his time in France.

[edit] See also

• NPL programming language
• Hope

[edit] External links

• Personal home page
• DBLP bibliography

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