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[–] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I loved learning lambda calculus (though for me it was super hard)

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I never really understood the point of Lambda calculus. Why have an anonymous function? I thought it was good practice to meticulously segment code into functions and subroutines and call them as needed, rather than have some psuedo-function embedded somewhere.

[–] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I suppose it has to do with being stateless.

I just loved learning about lambda calculus.

I think the idea is to remove complexity by never dealing with state, so you just have one long reduction till you get to the final state...

But someone who's more into lambdas etc should speak about this and not me (a weirdo)

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