Simon Peyton Jones

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Simon Peyton Jones (1958-) born in South Africa and is a British computer scientist. He does research on (lazy) functional programming languages, such as Haskell. He works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. He is married to Dorothy, a priest in the Church of England. They have six children.

Simon Peyton Jones, Simon Marlow and others have developed the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, a compiler for Haskell.

He has also worked on C--.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2011.

 Other websites 
Simon Peyton Jones page, Microsoft Research website

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Category:British computer scientists
Category:Members of Academia Europaea
Category:South African people
Category:1958 births
Category:Living people