November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Content preview from Learning Functional Programming in Go
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Lambda calculus
Alonzo Church brought formal logic, called untyped Lambda calculus, to computer science that includes substitution, abstraction, and application. Let's remember these terms and use them when implementing a lambda expression in Go later in this chapter.