Lambda as JavaScript, Or: A Flock of Functions

The Lambda Calculus is a symbol manipulation framework developed by the mathematician Alonzo Church in the 1930s. It was intended to be an extremely tiny syntax which could nevertheless suffice to calculate anything computable. The mathematical advantage … Read more

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