Impressions from the 1982 ACM Symposium on Lisp and Functional Programming

I returned from this conference with three distinct impressions: firstly, having Alonzo Church, Barkley Rosser and Haskell Curry together as Honored Guests of the conference; secondly, being totally entertained by the "performer" Peter Henderson presenting a rational reconstruction of an Escher woodcut using recursive function definitions1; and feeling that there were a number of astute British scientists who were thinking about foundational issues, who may soon make fundamental contributions to novel ways of computing!