Lambda Calculus

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[edit] Introduction

Lambda Calculus is a formal language which helped define the notion of a computable funcion. The languages lisp, scheme and haskell are very closely related to lamda calculus. The language defines means for abstraction and invocation, which are its axioms. All other programming constructs are derived from these basic axioms.

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  1. 25% developed  as of October 24, 2006 Basic Definitions
  2. 25% developed  as of October 24, 2006 Lambda Reduction
  3. 25% developed  as of October 24, 2006 Building Blocks