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throwaway7645 on May 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift is like Kotlin

Ah, was about to say that all goes back to lambda calculus by Church and could be found in Lisp probably around ~1958.

agumonkey on May 18, 2017 [–]

Actually I think there's a relation with exponentials and integral calculus. Or anything hyper-iteration related.

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