On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 6:09 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 4:52 PM Ravi Krishna <s_ravikris...@aol.com> > wrote: > >> on a diff note, is the word memoize inspired from Perl Module memoize > >> which use to do the same thing. > > > It is a general functional programming concept - not sure on the history > > but probably academic and thus Perl and others picked it up "from the > > source". > > Looks to me like you suggested our use of the terminology: > > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKFQuwZQmCNyS_Vv2Jf3TNe7wRTiptWNs7xkgU%3DAEdqthkQe9A%40mail.gmail.com#bbcd739c97e28b17ef2e111be8cf214b > > Yeah, I just don't remember which book on functional programming (probably JavaScript oriented though) I learned about it in.
David J.
