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Why are you citing an FP comp Sci professor? I must've missed something

• agumonkey 9y ago
  seeing reduce in swift made me think about the universality of fold, which is the paper linked.
  • throwaway7645 9y ago
    Ah, was about to say that all goes back to lambda calculus by Church and could be found in Lisp probably around ~1958.
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      Actually I think there's a relation with exponentials and integral calculus. Or anything hyper-iteration related.