| | Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Christopher Strachey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Also during his time at Oxford, Strachey continued his work on CPL and wrote one of his most important papers, “Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages.” Strachey laid the foundation for denotational semantics, a work that was just beginning to bear fruit when he died in 1975. |
 | | Perhaps Strachey’s greatest skill was his ability to combine the academic and industrial viewpoints of the day, bridging the ever-widening gulf between those fields at that time. |
 | | In addition, evidence of CPL is noticeable in other programming languages, including ALGOL 68 and C. Finally, Strachey founded the subject of denotational semantics, leaving it to future developers to make use of it in applications. |
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