Philip Wadler

Philip Wadler - Home page at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/

One of the principal designers of the HaskellLanguage and of GenericJava. He did research on ways to extend the classic HindleyMilner type systems.

Author of several introductory papers OnMonads (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/monads.html) and on LinearLogic and IntuitionisticLogic? (see IsFkkActuallyTrue).

Maintains a list of applications of FunctionalProgrammingInTheRealWorld and a GuideToFunctionalProgrammingOnTheWeb? (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/guide.html).

Wears the most outlandish clothes ever seen on a greying Jewish guy.

except when he takes his shirt off -- ShaeErisson

which he does with predictable regularity -- a fresher student of his


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