[HN Gopher] Alligator Eggs and Lambda Calculus (2007)
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Alligator Eggs and Lambda Calculus (2007)
Author : veqq
Score : 24 points
Date : 2025-01-18 01:29 UTC (2 days ago)
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| Jtsummers wrote:
| Some past discussions. I thought it had been discussed more but
| maybe it turned up in other discussions rather than as a
| submission of its own.
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8906167 - Jan 18, 2015 (24
| comments)
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586692 - Sept 28, 2012 (24
| comments)
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600736 - May 9, 2009 (9
| comments)
| bitwize wrote:
| I always thought this was up there with "monads are like
| burritos" in terms of how it makes things more complicated
| instead of simplifying them. Maybe that's just my old ass, and
| kids would appreciate it more. When I was a kid one of my
| teachers referred to the > and < symbols as "alligator mouths"
| and said "Just remember the alligator mouth eats the bigger
| number." Helped me keep those symbols straight for years.
| gs17 wrote:
| Yeah, I "get" it, but I can only think that as a kid I would
| have been too upset about all the senseless alligator deaths to
| internalize the patterns. I guess if they're not old enough to
| know algebra, (lx.x ly.y)(lz.z) might be more scary than a
| reptilian predator.
| laszlokorte wrote:
| Thats exactly how my teacher in second grade when I was 8 years
| old (in Germany) taught us about greater than ans less than.
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