List of Famous people with last name Wadler

Philip Wadler

First Name Philip
Last Name Wadler
Born on April 8, 1956 (age 69)

Philip Lee Wadler is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. In particular, he has contributed to the theory behind functional programming and the use of monads in functional programming, the design of the purely functional language Haskell, and the XQuery declarative query language. In 1984, he created the Orwell programming language. Wadler was involved in adding generic types to Java 5.0. He is also author of the paper Theorems for free! that gave rise to much research on functional language optimization.

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