On Thursday, October 2, 2014 4:47:50 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > It's not as if I'm new to programming either, I've been writing > > software professionally since the early 1970s, now retired. I have no > > formal computer training, there wasn't much in the way of university > > courses on computing in the 1960s, I have a degree in Electrical > > Engineering. Maybe that's why 'lambda' means nothing to me! :-)
> Lambda is special because it was thought of in the 1920's, well before > there were any general-purpose computers. > <URL: http://www.users.waitrose.com/~hindley/SomePapers_PDFs/2006CarH If you find that heavy going, here's an intro lecture on λ-calculus -- part of lectures on discrete math I've been preparing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoq-GlOdSs&feature=youtu.be Comments/criticisms welcome though do remember I am as new to film-making today as I was to programming 30 years ago :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
