Grant Edwards wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So I'd say that it's a pretty obscure name that most people >> wouldn't know. > > I can't believe that anybody with any computer science > background doesn't know it.
Perhaps this reflects on the quality of education in the United States ;) but I managed to get a BS in Computer Science at the University of Arizona without ever seeing the word lambda (in the programming languages sense). However, I only took one class in programming languages, and it was more of a survey class than a theory class. When I did take a theory class, here at University of Colorado at Boulder, they did, of course, cover lambda calculus. But there was at least a year or two in which I would have considered myself somebody "with any computer science background" who wasn't familiar with lambda. OTOH, I fully agree with Peter Hansen: "Really, the name is such a trivial, unimportant part of this whole thing that it's hardly worth discussing." STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
