John Hughes (computer scientist)

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John Hughes

R. John M. Hughes is a computer scientist who does research in the field of programming languages and the author of several influential research papers on the subject, including "Why Functional Programming Matters".[1] He is a professor in the department of Computing Science at the Chalmers University of Technology. Hughes is a member of the Functional Programming group at Chalmers, and much of his research relates to the Haskell programming language.

He is also one of the developers of QuickCheck.

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  1. ^ Hughes, John (1989). "Why Functional Programming Matters". Computer Journal 32 (2): 98–107. doi:10.1093/comjnl/32.2.98. Retrieved May 6, 2010. 

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