Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!

[Bryan Olson]

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.


--Bryana