From: pere.noel@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9vue?=)
Date: 2006-10-28T22:05:18+09:00
Subject: Re: What are closures, continuations?

matt neuburg <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:

> This is a term from LISP. It basically just means a function that you
> can define and then pass around and call. 

is that "lambda" name derived from lambda calculus in modern logic, or
is it the reverse, lambda calculus deriving from lisp work ???

(i would think so because lambda calculus is aimed toward automatic
comilation from function down to machine language)