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by closeparen 1595 days ago
We wrote some programs in lambda calculus, but I mainly remember working on an ML interpreter. Type checking, exceptions, free variables, etc.
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"Historically, ML was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover (whose language, pplambda, a combination of the first-order predicate calculus and the simply-typed polymorphic lambda calculus, had ML as its metalanguage)."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)