Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!

[Ian Bicking]

On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:33, Bryan Olson wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
>  > I've seen people argue that you can do all the same things with
>  > iterators as Smalltalk does with code blocks.  And, really, it's not as
>  > though Smalltalk has truly novel control structures -- everything still
>  > boils down to while, for, and if.
> 
> Decades before anyone implemented a programming language, Alonzo Church
> boiled all the control structures down to just one: lambda.

And Smalltalk *pretends* to implement something like the lambda calculus
-- but deep down, they had to use the same if statements we all use (for
performance reasons).

but-they're-all-turing-equivalently y'rs,
  Ian