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A brief history of functional programming (bc.edu)
4 points by schtog on May 18, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


"To use functions as arguments, one needs a notation for functions, and it seemed natural to use the λ -notation of Church (1941). I didn't understand the rest of his book, so I wasn't tempted to try to implement his more general mechanism for defining functions."


how do i add the comment to the mainpost? i posted in the "textarea" but it wasnt included in the post...


I believe if you include an url you can't add text to it.




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