<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 5:48 PM Greg Ewing <<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Chris Angelico wrote:<br>
> No, lambda calculus isn't on par with brakes - but anonymous functions<br>
> are, and if they're called "lambda", you just learn that.<br>
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It's like saying that people would find it easier to learn to<br>
drive if "brakes" were called "stoppers" or something. I don't<br>
think that's true.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>There isn't much jargon involved in learning to drive and most of it is natural: left turn, right turn, blinkers, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Compare this with learning to sail. I still don't remember which side is starboard.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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