> On 28 May 2018, at 23:48, Torsten Hämmerle wrote:
>
> As far as I know, Church originally used a "hat" accent ^.
> From there, it's not far to a Greek Λ and its lower-case form λ.
In [1], p. 7, there is a remark that he originally stated that, but later said
the choice was more accidental, a
Hans Åberg-2 wrote
> The lambda comes from the book by Alonzo Church, "The Calculi of
> Lambda-conversion", which is a logic theory about function applications,
> but it is unknown why he choose the letter lambda, though a prefix
> notation makes it easier to carry out formal proofs. It then caught
> On 28 May 2018, at 21:47, Robert Schmaus wrote:
>
> I agree with you - when I looked at the Scheme functions (mainly as Snippets)
> I saw that it's not very complicated. It was just when I tried to customise
> something that I really had to do a lot of guesswork how to get this to work.
>
Hi Andrew,
thanks first of all for your mail and the many resources (which I will
need some time to look through, I think) ... and sorry for the late
reply, I had two computer-free days, which sometimes really is refreshing.
I agree with you - when I looked at the Scheme functions (mainly as
Robert Schmaus writes:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> thanks first of all for your mail and the many resources (which I will
> need some time to look through, I think) ... and sorry for the late
> reply, I had two computer-free days, which sometimes really is
> refreshing.
>
> I agree with you - when I looked
> On 27 May 2018, at 14:13, Helge Kruse wrote:
>
> Am 27.05.2018 um 13:38 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
>> I would recommend obtaining a copy of SICP, Structure and Interpretation of
>> Computer Programs, by Ableson and Sussman, the MIT text and classic of
>> computer science. This is the famous Wizar
Am 27.05.2018 um 13:38 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
> I would recommend obtaining a copy of SICP, Structure and Interpretation of
> Computer Programs, by Ableson and Sussman, the MIT text and classic of
> computer science. This is the famous Wizard book, from the cover picture.
> My hardback copy sits o
Hi Robert,
I've started a new thread on the topic under discussion of the difficulty
of learning Scheme. This comes up frequently. Putting my programmer hat on,
it's a common experience for programmers brought up in C family languages
to be baffled and daunted by Scheme and Lisp family languages.
