The mechanical evaluation of expressions

Would you believe that one 13 page paper written in 1964 (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/crary/www/819-f09/Landin64.pdf) coined:

• syntactic sugar
• closures
• thunks
• partial evaluation
• de Bruijn Indices
• call by need
• strictness analysis
• domain specific languages
• applicative expressions

... and if that wasn't enough also invented a profoundly influential lambda calculus abstract machine called the SECD machine?

... and that's 13 pages including citations!

Join me as we dive into a paper (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/crary/www/819-f09/Landin64.pdf) virtually unknown outside of academic circles that a beginner could read over a weekend and that changed the course of programming languages forever.