Xah Lee wrote:
Haskell has a new logo. [Blam! It fucking blows because lambda means pure functional]
A truly pure functional language would be useless for anything but programming space heaters.
Lambda seems not inappropriate on any language that strongly supports a functional style. Schemes and Clojure certainly do, and Haskell certainly does. Common Lisp is a bit less strongly functionally-oriented, but it still supports it better than, say, C or Java, by having first-class functions and closures.
In fact the general pattern seems to be that lambda crops up in languages that have first-class functions, which not coincidentally tend to also have an anonymous function operator, often called lambda.
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