On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:49:18AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yea from Wikipedia it appears that Lambda Calculus is purely functional while Lisp comprises on purely functional for practical reasons. Still, it is exciting to know that learning Lisp means we are learning *more* than Lambda Calculus...that it doesn't have anything new to offer Lisp.
Some extra stuff beyond lambda calculus is useful even for purely functional programming. It's nice to have integers where addition runs in constant time rather than the order of the first number :-) Lambda Calculus is to Lisp as Turing Machine is to C. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
