Lambda the Ultimate

R.W. Floyd's Turing Award Lecture “The Paradigms of Programming” is freely available in an online journal here. It is almost 30 years old, and still very much relevant. A quotation: To the designer of programming languages, I say: unless you can support the paradigms I use when I program, or at least support my extending your language into one that does support my programming methods, I don’t need your shiny new languages [...]