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- From: shome@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (Probal Shome)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Origin of "curried"
- Summary: Haskell B. Curry
- Keywords: Currying, Etymology
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.175433.9548@aa.cad.slb.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:54:33 GMT
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- Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM at Ann Arbor, MI
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- Peter da Silva ( peter@ferranti.com ) writes , in comp.lang.misc
- <28 Aug 92 18:45:22 GMT> :
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- >In article <1992Aug27.160259.15445@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
- >> 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.
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- >I've always thought of it like currying a horse, not currying a meal.
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- Probably it is Curry who is popularly attributed with inventing the operation
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- rather than Schoenfinkel ?
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- ( The Amerigo Vespuchi/Christopher Columbus phenomenon in reverse ? )
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- - Probal Shome.
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- ( shome@aaaca1.sinet.slb.com )
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