"Anna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Having taken some calculus (derivatives, limits, some integrals) but never even heard of lambda calculus, to me, lambda means absolutely NOTHING. Less than nothing.
Lambda calculus is from mathematical logic, but more to the point "lambda" has been the term used in Lisp for this operation since time immemorial. Since the kinds of programmers who want to use anonymous functions have probably been exposed to Lisp at one time or another, "lambda" should not cause any confusion.
That's probably not the most enthusiastic evangelical approach to functional programming I've ever heard :-)
Perhaps what we really need is a good Lisp subsystem for Python?
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