Editing Andrew Appel (section)

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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| caption            = Andrew Appel in 2006
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| birth_date         = 1960
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| father             = [[Kenneth Appel]]
| relatives          = [[Peter H. Appel]] (brother)
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'''Andrew Wilson Appel''' (born 1960) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of [[computer science]] at [[Princeton University]]. He is especially well known because of his [[compiler]] books, the ''Modern Compiler Implementation in ML'' ({{ISBN|0-521-58274-1}}) series, as well as ''Compiling With Continuations'' ({{ISBN|0-521-41695-7}}). He is also a major contributor to the [[Standard ML of New Jersey]] compiler, along with [[David MacQueen]], [[John H. Reppy]], [[Matthias Blume]] and others<ref>[http://www.smlnj.org/people.html SML/NJ Team<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and one of the authors of ''[[Rog-O-Matic]]''.