# Programming Language Theory

* [Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs](http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_lecture.pdf)

* [Programming and Reasoning with Algebraic Effects and Dependent Types](http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/effects.pdf)

* [Programming Languages: History and Future](http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/undergraduate/CMSC331/resources/papers/sammet1972.pdf)

* [Soft Typing](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.24.9333&rep=rep1&type=pdf)