The lambda calculus is a theoretical construct often used to beat non-mathematically inclined programmers into submission - that and monoids. Now we have Calc Intelligence, a Microsoft Research ...

Turing’s approach via a machine model has a great deal of appeal to a programmer and to a computer scientist but, as we have just seen in the previous chapter, mathematicians have also considered what ...

In the world of lambda calculus programming languages there are many ways to express the terms, which is why we ended up with such an amazing range of programming languages, even if most trace their ...