The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on Functions

Posted by janecoder on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:14AM
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Re:The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on... by penvssword on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:28AM (#1697479)

Steve Yegge wrote about learning LISP via this book. He said on a blog entry that he did every example in Scheme and Common LISP.

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Re:The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on... by averagejoe on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:30AM (#1697482)

This is about one step away from implementing the eval function itself. Paul Graham did that in his "Roots of LISP" article.

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Re:The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on... by janecoder on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:32AM (#1697487)

I like how they pull it out step by step. The Y-Combinator just sort of falls out of the process.

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Re:The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on... by keywallet on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:25AM (#1697478)

When you get the Y-Combinator function - it's quite a profound experience.

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Re:The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on... by phoneman on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:22AM (#1697467)

That was a really good book. This is good for learning LISP.

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