Just my 2c -- maybe not, this is just a way of thinking about problems that might come handy in some usually unexpected way. Also, it could be cool to mumble to

Just my 2c -- maybe not, this is just a way of thinking about problems that might come handy in some usually unexpected way. Also, it could be cool to mumble to your geek friends on use cases of alpha conversion and beta reduction. Seriously though, I do not know Lisp, but if you know OCaml you probably have a good feel for lambda calculus just from practical application of the language. My 2c.