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- From: rro@cs.ColoState.EDU (Rod Oldehoeft)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Origin of "curried"
- Message-ID: <Aug27.142227.24529@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:22:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.184302.17123@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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- In article <1992Aug26.184302.17123@dg-rtp.dg.com>, banksd@hydra.rtp.dg.com (E du^2 + 2F dudv + G dv^2) writes:
- |> The discussion of "dope vector"'s etymology reminds me -- what
- |> is the origin of the obligatory "curried add" in lisp examples?
- |> Have you ever encountered this sense of "curry" elsewhere?
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- Of course this comes from Haskell B. Curry, the American mathematician
- and logician who helped make this way of thinking widespread as part
- of his (and others') development of combinatory logic. The act of
- currying was invented by Moses Schoenfinkel in 1924. (This comes from
- MacLennan's book.)
-
- Guess what else has been done with his name. Yes, the lazy functional
- language Haskell is named for him.
-
- Quel whimsy!
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