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Haskell before Haskell. Curry’s contribution to programming (1946–1950)

Liesbeth De Mol, Maarten Bullynck, Martin Carlé

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Abstract. This paper discusses Curry’s work on how to implement the problem of inverse interpolation on the ENIAC (1946) and his subsequent work on developing a theory of program composition (1948-1950). It is shown that Curry anticipated automatic programming and that his logical work influenced his composition of programs. Key words: ENIAC, Haskell B. Curry, combinators, program compo-sition, history of programming 1

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Key concepts: Haskell, Curry, Programming language, Computer science, Functional programming