To all the people who know lambda calculus: What benefit has it bought you, regarding programming? Would you recommend that people learn it?
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To all the people who know lambda calculus: What benefit has it bought you, regarding programming? Would you recommend that people learn it?
If you want to program in any functional programming language, it’s essential. I mean, how useful is it to know about Turing machines? Well, if you write C, the language paradigm is quite close to Turing machines — you have an instruction pointer and a current instruction, and the machine takes some action in the current state, and then ambles along to the next instruction.
In a functional language, you simply can’t think like that — that’s not the language paradigm. You have to think back to lambda calculus, and how terms are evaluated there. It will be much harder for you to be effective in a functional language if you don’t know lambda calculus.