Re: [Haskell-cafe] historical question about Haskell and Haskell Curry

2007-07-19 Thread Conor McBride
On 19 Jul 2007, at 03:40, Tim Chevalier wrote: On 7/18/07, Michael Vanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We always say that Haskell is named for Haskell Curry because his work provided the logical/computational foundations for the language. How exactly is this the case? Specifically, does any

Re: [Haskell-cafe] historical question about Haskell and Haskell Curry

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 7/18/07, Michael Vanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We always say that Haskell is named for Haskell Curry because his work provided the logical/computational foundations for the language. How exactly is this the case? Specifically, does anyone claim that Curry's combinatorial logic is more

[Haskell-cafe] historical question about Haskell and Haskell Curry

2007-07-18 Thread Michael Vanier
We always say that Haskell is named for Haskell Curry because his work provided the logical/computational foundations for the language. How exactly is this the case? Specifically, does anyone claim that Curry's combinatorial logic is more relevant to the theoretical foundations of Haskell than