Backus asserted that the Von Neumann architecture and its associated imperative languages are fundamentally flawed, and presented a functional-level programming language (FP) as a solution.

A programming language is designed to describe a set of consecutive actions executed by a computer. A programming language is, therefore, a practical way for us humans to give instructions to a ...

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Software development changes over time, from imperative programming to high level languages like Python and C++.

The principle goal of HLA was to leverage students' existing programming knowledge. For example, good Pascal programmers can get their first C/C++ program operational in a few minutes. In HLA, I ...