100 years ago Moses Schönfinkel laid the foundations of Functional Programming with the introduction of combinators: functions that combine other functions, allowing complex expressions to be built from simpler ones.
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"Whatever the next 700 languages turn out to be, they will surely be variants of lambda calculus." ~ Peter Landin, 1966. #Quote#Programming#LambdaCalculus