In this panel discussion, three people who knew Christopher Strachey in different contexts talk about their memories of him.
Strachey: school master, language designer, colleague
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Michael Jackson discusses being taught by Strachey as a boy at Harrow, David Hartley talks about work with Strachey on the programming language CPL, and Roger Penrose remembers working with Strachey at the National Research Development Corporation and introducing him to lambda calculus.
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Christopher Strachey (1916–1975) was a pioneering computer scientist and the founder of the Programming Research Group, now part of the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University. Although Strachey was keenly interested in the practical aspects of computing, it is in the theoretical side that he most indelibly left his mark, notably by creating with Dana Scott the denotational (or as he called it, ‘mathematical’) approach to defining the semantics of programming languages. Strachey...
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