Strachey: school master, language designer, colleague

In this panel discussion, three people who knew Christopher Strachey in different contexts talk about their memories of him. Michael Jackson discusses being taught by Strachey as a boy at Harrow, David Hartley talks about work with Strachey on the programming language CPL, and Roger Penrose remembers working with Strachey at the National Research Development Corporation and introducing him to lambda calculus.

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Strachey: school master, language designer, colleague is an episode from Strachey 100: an Oxford Computing Pioneer by Oxford University.

This episode is 44:11 long.

This episode was published on Jun 26, 2017.

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