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Notes on Will Kurt, Get Programming with Haskell
John Backus, who led the team that created Fortran, asked in his Turing Award lecture, “Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?”
This question leads to the second way to understand programming, which is the subject of the first unit in this book. Functional programming attempts to liberate programming from the von Neumann style.