''Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages'' were an influential set of lecture notes written by Christopher Strachey for the International Summer School in Computer Programming at Copenhagen in August, 1967. It introduced much programming language terminology still in use today, including " R-value" and " L-value", " ad hoc polymorphism", " parametric polymorphism", and "

referential transparency In analytic philosophy and computer science, referential transparency and referential opacity are properties of linguistic constructions, and by extension of languages. A linguistic construction is called ''referentially transparent'' when for an ...

". The lecture notes were reprinted in 2000 in a special issue of '' Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation'' in memory of Strachey.

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Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
Volume 13, Issue 1/2 (April 2000) ''Special Issue in memory of Christopher Strachey''
Fundamental Concepts In Programming Languages
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Great Works in Programming Languages
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