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- From: billaud@greco-prog.fr (Michel BILLAUD)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Origin of "curried"
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.082754.10509@greco-prog.fr>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 08:27:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.184302.17123@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Reply-To: billaud@geocub.UUCP (Michel BILLAUD)
- Organization: LaBRI - Universite Bordeaux I - France
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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?
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- ... comes from a mathematician named Curry !
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- >Have you ever encountered this sense of "curry" elsewhere?
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- probably in the litterature about the programming language SPICE ?
-
- M Billaud
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- PS: Yes, take it with a grain of salt.
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