Learning Lambda Calculus With Elixir

"The beauty of λ-calculus is that it is so simple, it consists of very few constructs and rules, yet it is as powerful as the most powerful programming language. No one in their right mind would program anything in λ-calculus, but it has served as the inspiration of a whole family of languages."

Since the λ-calculus has been so influential in the development of functional programming languages, let's see how we can learn more about it and implement it using Elixir.

Reading for Discussion (8 pages):
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf

Let's go through this paper and take a stab at the practice problems on page 9.

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Other Recommended Resources:
Lambda Calculus with Elixir Examples: https://id1019.gitbook.io/exercises/introduction/lambda-calculus

Great talk on Lambda Calculus with Javascript:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQ382QG-y4

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