Other lives: Computer scientist whose polished style led to his being known as the ‘poet laureate of functional programming’
My mentor, colleague and friend Richard Bird, who has died of cancer aged 79, was a computer scientist specialising in the mathematics of computer programming. Instead of repeatedly finding and fixing bugs in a program until it appears to pass all tests, he argued for calculating the program from a precise specification of what it should do - just as one calculates a quotient and remainder by long division, rather than guessing and correcting an answer.
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