For anyone interested in additional context, the paper "AI and the Origins of the Functional Programming Language Style " by Mark Priestley is a great introduct

For anyone interested in additional context, the paper "AI and the Origins of the Functional Programming Language Style " by Mark Priestley is a great introduction: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-017-9432-7 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-017-9432-7 (sorry, I don't have a non-paywalled link, but SciHub does the trick).