# 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) * :scroll: [Composable and Compilable Macros: You Want it When?](https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf)