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For anyone who may need more incentive to download the PDF: Knuth is co-author.
by macintux 6y ago
For anyone who may need more incentive to download the PDF: Knuth is co-author.
- codetrotter 6y agoSpeaking of names, in the abstract of the paper they mention: > Curry (“Composition”, 1948) And suddenly I was like wow I wonder if the concept of currying was invented by this guy so I look it up. Turns out that while someone else is credited for inventing currying, it’s named after this Curry guy indeed. And more things are named after him, including the Haskell programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
- rbonvall 6y agoA recurring joke in functional programming books is some footnote mentioning that currying was discovered by Schönfinkel but named after Curry because "schönfinkeling" didn't catch on.