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The Lambda Calculus is a tiny symbol manipulation system which suffices to compute anything Turing-computable. Thanks to this expressive power, LC is woven into the DNA of functional programming languages. In this talk, the surprises and delights of LC and related formalisms are demonstrated through the familiar lens of JavaScript.

Gabriel's slides:
https://speakerdeck.com/glebec/lambda-calc-talk-smartly-dot-io-version

Gist of the Q&A part:
https://gist.github.com/glebec/7d9d1425576378f5acdd6652feef6a33

See part II of Gabriel's talk at:
https://github.com/glebec/lambda-talk

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Sep 17, 2022 · 6 points, 0 comments · submitted by amar-laksh
Rich Hickey - Hammock-driven development: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFc

Programming is terrible: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c

Dave Beazely - Python concurrency from the ground up (applicable to languages in general, with generator and corourine functionality) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4

Functional programming, with birds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnVo7EHO_8&t=1009s

Short and classic: Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

mikewarot
>Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFc

This gave me a sharp moment of clarity, thank you so much for this!

I'll work on the wording over time, but here's a rough sketch of my principle:

My principle is that no person should ever be forced to blindly trust a computer to do the right thing. Computing shouldn't be either blindly trust the black box, or get nothing done.

Nobody should have to hand over their wallet to buy an ice cream cone, you can just take the exact change out and pay. Why should you have to give a program access to everything when you just want to edit one text file?

Here's one great introduction - A Flock of Functions: Lambda Calculus and Combinatory Logic in JavaScript | Gabriel Lebec @ DevTalks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnVo7EHO_8

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