Philip Wadler

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Computer_Scientist
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Galois,_Inc.
gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
gptkbp:award gptkb:Haskell_Community_Award
ACM Fellow
Royal Society Fellow
gptkbp:birth_date 1967-01-01
gptkbp:birth_place gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:contribution work on the theory of programming language concurrency
work on the theory of programming language performance
work on the theory of programming language verification
work on the theory of programming language maintainability
work on the theory of programming language evolution
work on the theory of programming language reliability
work on the theory of programming language optimization
work on the theory of programming language simplicity
work on the theory of programming language interoperability
work on the theory of programming language profiling
work on the theory of programming language semantics
work on the theory of programming language expressiveness
work on the theory of programming language parallelism
work on the theory of programming language extensibility
design of GHC
design of the Haskell language
development of monads in functional programming
development of type classes
work on the theory of programming language standardization
work on the theory of programming language writability
work on the theory of programming language aesthetics
work on functional reactive programming
work on program transformation
work on the Curry-Howard correspondence
work on the design of functional languages
work on the foundations of functional programming
work on the implementation of functional languages
work on the lambda calculus
work on the semantics of programming languages
work on the theory of computation
work on the theory of programming language beauty
work on the theory of programming language clarity
work on the theory of programming language design
work on the theory of programming language metrics
work on the theory of programming language testing
work on the theory of programming languages
work on the theory of type systems
work on the theory of types
work on type inference algorithms
work on the theory of programming language modularity
work on the theory of programming language debugging
work on the theory of programming language usability
work on the theory of programming language security
work on the theory of programming language conciseness
work on the theory of programming language distribution
work on the theory of programming language scalability
work on the theory of programming language elegance
work on the theory of programming language analysis
work on the theory of programming language accessibility
work on the theory of programming language implementation
work on the theory of programming language portability
work on the theory of programming language readability
work on the theory of programming language refactoring
gptkbp:education gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:field gptkb:computer_science
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Philip Wadler
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Simon_Peyton_Jones
gptkb:Philip_Wadler
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Alonzo_Church
gptkb:Peter_Landin
gptkb:John_Hughes
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:Haskell
contribution to programming languages
theorems for free
gptkbp:notable_work Functional Programming
Type Systems
gptkbp:research_interest gptkb:political_theory
functional programming
program verification
compiler construction
programming language design
gptkbp:website http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Haskell
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5