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by krapp 3617 days ago
>so is this just the latest thing coming down the pike that everyone needs to give lip service to in order to seem smart to their peers?

Lambda calculus was created by Alonzo Church in the 1930s. Alongside the work of Alan Turing, it forms a large part of the mathematical basis for modern computer science[0][1], and the implementation of many, if not most, modern programming languages.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church-Turing_thesis