> IMO Lambda calculus should be taught wider in CS programs. It brings useful models, builds (if one likes theory) good background to functional programming paradigms, etc.
I'm surprised than anyone thinks this. Unless you're in a very specialized area, it's about as useful as getting practice with writing algorithms using Turing Machines.
(Yes, it offers a very different perspective to the usual Von Neumann machine, but learning graph reduction as evalation is just as valuable, if not more.)
I'm surprised than anyone thinks this. Unless you're in a very specialized area, it's about as useful as getting practice with writing algorithms using Turing Machines.
(Yes, it offers a very different perspective to the usual Von Neumann machine, but learning graph reduction as evalation is just as valuable, if not more.)