An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson

An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus Greg Michaelson ebook
ISBN: 0486478831, 9780486478838
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Page: 335
Format: djvu

Abstraction and application; Evaluation and Reduction. An Introduction to the Lambda Calculus. Chief among these languages or programming approaches is functional programming. There has been explosion of software development languages in recent years. And now for something different. I won't go into all the reasons why it's better to write computational systems in a functional paradigm since that is covered in depth in my forthcoming book “Computational Finance and the Lambda Calculus”. Scheme and Dylan were later developed to simplify and improve Backus's paper popularized research into functional programming, though it emphasized function-level programming rather than the lambda-calculus style which has come to be associated with functional programming. However types can have diminishing returns as more types are introduced. Pure lambda calculus; Simply typed lambda calculus; Functional programming. However, here are the salient points: Conceptual consistency with mathematics resulting in less . Introduced by Alonzo Church in the 1930s, "Lambda Calculus", consisting of a single transformation rule and function definition scheme, is the world's smallest programming language. In the late 1950s, LISP was created introducing many features now found in functional language.