Functional programming
Programming paradigm based on applying and composing functions
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| 2024 |
Nix
A team of volunteers released the first version of Lix, a fork of Nix focused on correctness and compatibility, using the Meson build automation system and intending to gradually rewrite parts of the code in Rust.
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| 2023 | Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). |
| July 2023 |
Wikifunctions
Wikifunctions officially launched after three years of development, becoming the first Wikimedia project to launch since Wikidata in 2012.
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| 2022 | Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to education and computer science. |
| 2021 | Started working at Epic Games as an engineering fellow, ending his tenure at Microsoft Research. |
| 2021 |
Nix
Tvix, a reimplementation of Nix package manager, was announced with goals of modularity, full compatibility with Nixpkgs, and improved evaluator performance.
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| May 16 2021 | Lawrence M. Breed passed away, concluding his significant contributions to computer science and the Burning Man community. |
| December 22 2020 |
Wikifunctions
The definitive name 'Wikifunctions' was announced following a naming contest, moving away from the provisional name 'Wikilambda'.
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| 2019 |
John M. Scholes
John Morley Scholes passed away, concluding a career dedicated to computer science and APL programming language development.
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| 2019 | Appointed chair of the newly founded UK National Centre for Computing Education. |
| March 21 2019 |
Roger Moore
Roger D. Moore passed away.
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| 2018 | Became a senior research fellow and area leader for programming languages at IOHK (now Input Output Global), contributing to Cardano blockchain technology, including work on Plutus smart contract language. |
| 2018 |
John M. Scholes
Presented 'Dfns—Past, Present and Future', reflecting on the development and evolution of function definitions in Dyalog APL.
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| 2018 | First Derivatives bought out Whitney and Lustgarten's minority shares of Kx Systems. Whitney and Lustgarten then founded Shakti, a platform for fast deployment and processing of distributed elastic workloads. |
| 2017 | Received honorary doctorates from the University of Kent and University of Bath. |
| 2017 | Became a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS). |
| 2016 | Received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award. |
| 2016 | Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). |
| 2013 | Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. |
| 2012 |
John M. Scholes
Presented technical talks including 'Potential Version 14.0 Language Features', 'State-Free Programming', 'Calling Alan Turing', and 'A Sudoku Solver in APL', demonstrating innovative programming techniques.
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| 2011 |
John M. Scholes
Delivered multiple significant presentations at the Dyalog Conference, including 'APL#', 'Function Trains for Dyalog APL', 'What is Functional Programming?', and 'Closures', showcasing his expertise in programming language design and functional programming.
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| 2011 | Together with Simon Marlow, awarded the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for their work on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). |
| 2011 | Awarded membership in the Academia Europaea (MAE). |
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