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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Origin of "curried"
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.160259.15445@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:02:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.184302.17123@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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- banksd@hydra.rtp.dg.com (E du^2 + 2F dudv + G dv^2) wrote:
- > The discussion of "dope vector"'s etymology reminds me -- what
- > is the origin of the obligatory "curried add" in lisp examples?
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- Named after Haskell B. Curry. Coined by David Turner at the time he was
- working on SASL. I've always thought the culinary analogy ought to be
- "schongefilte" instead - Schonfinkel invented the idea, not Curry, and
- the word suggests removing something rather than, like "currying", adding
- extra ingredients. Schonfinkel's original 1924 paper is translated in
- Jean van Heijenoort's "A Source Book in Mathematical Logic".
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- Incidentally, does "Iliffe vector" predate "dope vector"? It was the usual
- word for the concept in the UK for a long time - did Iliffe use them in
- Manchester in the mid-50s? If so, in what language or machine?
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