A historian’s perspective on the earlier years of Christopher Strachey’s life. The talk covers his familial connections, his early career as a school master, and his first computing projects.
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A historian’s perspective on the earlier years of Christopher Strachey’s life. The talk covers his familial connections, his early career as a school master, and his first computing projects.
Strachey: school master, language designer, colleague
Strachey 100: an Oxford Computing Pioneer
44 minutes
8 years ago
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.
Strachey 100: an Oxford Computing Pioneer
A historian’s perspective on the earlier years of Christopher Strachey’s life. The talk covers his familial connections, his early career as a school master, and his first computing projects.
