Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs: Communications of the ACM: Vol 21, No 8

Conventional programming languages are growing ever more enormous, but not stronger. Inherent defects at the most basic level cause them to be both fat and weak: their primitive word-at-a-time style o...