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The blog post's title is an homage to a series of papers from the 70s, which formulated the Scheme programming language and the beginnings of what we now know a

The blog post's title is an homage to a series of papers from the 70s, which formulated the Scheme programming language and the beginnings of what we now know as "functional programming". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Scheme_programming_language#The_Lambda_Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Scheme_programm...

devin 6y ago
Specifically the "Lambda: The Ultimate" bit.
- girvo 6y ago
  Which is one of my favourite PLT websites: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org http://lambda-the-ultimate.org
  - chalst 6y ago
    Where I heard about this development nearly three months ago: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5621 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5621
nexuist 6y ago
Funnily enough the two examples they provide in this article (reverse string and factorial) were the exact two first problems I encountered in the Scheme class I took in college. I'm guessing both of these problems are defined in those papers.
unhammer 6y ago
The authors of the post have both been central to Haskell's development, among other PL things – I'm guessing they've read them all :)