How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data?

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 13:46:53 EDT 2014


On Thursday, October 2, 2014 4:47:50 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> > It's not as if I'm new to programming either, I've been writing
> > software professionally since the early 1970s, now retired. I have no
> > formal computer training, there wasn't much in the way of university
> > courses on computing in the 1960s, I have a degree in Electrical
> > Engineering. Maybe that's why 'lambda' means nothing to me! :-)

> Lambda is special because it was thought of in the 1920's, well before
> there were any general-purpose computers.

> <URL: http://www.users.waitrose.com/~hindley/SomePapers_PDFs/2006CarH

If you find that heavy going, here's an intro lecture on λ-calculus
-- part of lectures on discrete math I've been preparing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoq-GlOdSs&feature=youtu.be

Comments/criticisms welcome though do remember I am as new to
film-making today as I was to programming 30 years ago :-)



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