Philip Wadler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Philip Wadler

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1956

Place of Birth: United States of America, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory.
In particular, he has contributed to the theory behind functional programming and the use of monads in functional programming, the design of the purely functional language Haskell, and the XQuery declarative query language.
In 1984, he created the Orwell programming language.
Wadler was involved in adding generic types to Java 5.0.
He is also author of the paper Theorems for free! that gave rise to much research on functional language optimization (see also Parametricity).