X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=offsite_reading.mdwn;h=b39906cd93679e46b5b536fe3f26a82886c56e94;hb=c41011d1b721965659468bfae6105c054e0c257b;hp=272b8a14dd4e6d401cda4a551a5a13dc18ac5286;hpb=b0046b1316f1487979d5dc2cc75ddf8e287c59b3;p=lambda.git diff --git a/offsite_reading.mdwn b/offsite_reading.mdwn index 272b8a14..b39906cd 100644 --- a/offsite_reading.mdwn +++ b/offsite_reading.mdwn @@ -14,22 +14,10 @@ of an article you don't fully understand, so that you can discuss it with the re the group and hopefully get to a point where you can read it again and get more out of. (Rinse and repeat.) - -## General issues about variables and binding in programming languages ## - -* [[!wikipedia Variable (programming) desc="Variables"]] -* [[!wikipedia Variable shadowing]] -* [[!wikipedia Scope (programming) desc="Variable scope"]] -* [[!wikipedia Free variables and bound variables]] -* [[!wikipedia Name binding]] -* [[!wikipedia Name resolution]] -* [[!wikipedia Parameter (computer science) desc="Function parameters"]] - -## Functions as values, etc ## +## Functions ## * [[!wikipedia Higher-order function]] * [[!wikipedia First-class function]] -* [[!wikipedia Closure (computer science) desc="Closures"]] * [[!wikipedia Currying]] ## Functional vs imperative programming ## @@ -40,29 +28,60 @@ get more out of. (Rinse and repeat.) * [[!wikipedia Referential transparency (computer science)]] * [[!wikipedia Imperative programming]] +## General issues about variables and scope in programming languages ## + +* [[!wikipedia Variable (programming) desc="Variables"]] +* [[!wikipedia Free variables and bound variables]] +* [[!wikipedia Variable shadowing]] +* [[!wikipedia Name binding]] +* [[!wikipedia Name resolution]] +* [[!wikipedia Parameter (computer science) desc="Function parameters"]] +* [[!wikipedia Scope (programming) desc="Variable scope"]] +* [[!wikipedia Closure (computer science) desc="Closures"]] + +##[[Learning Scheme]]## + +* [Try Scheme in your web browser](http://tryscheme.sourceforge.net/) + ## Untyped lambda calculus and combinatory logic ## * [[!wikipedia Lambda calculus]] +* Our [[Lambda evaluator]] * [Chris Barker's Lambda Tutorial](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/Lambda) -* [Lambda Animator](http://thyer.name/lambda-animator/)
+* [Lambda Animator](http://thyer.name/lambda-animator/) +* [Penn lambda calculator](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/lambda/) Pedagogical software developed by Lucas Champollion, Josh Tauberer and Maribel Romero.
+ + * [[!wikipedia Moses Schönfinkel]] * [[!wikipedia Haskell Curry]] * [[!wikipedia Alonzo Church]]
+* [[!wikipedia Church encoding]]
+
+
* [[!wikipedia Combinatory logic]]
* [Combinatory logic](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-combinatory/) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
* [[!wikipedia SKI combinatory calculus]]
* [[!wikipedia B,C,K,W system]]
-
-* [Chris Barker's Iota and Jot](http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Iota/)
+* Jeroen Fokker, "The Systematic Construction of a One-combinator Basis for Lambda-Terms" Formal Aspects of Computing 4 (1992), pp. 776-780.
+
+
+* [To Dissect a Mockingbird](http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/index.htm)
+
+## Evaluation Order ##
+
+* [[!wikipedia Evaluation strategy]]
+* [[!wikipedia Eager evaluation]]
+* [[!wikipedia Lazy evaluation]]
+* [[!wikipedia Strict programming language]]
+
+## Confluence, Normalization, Undecidability ##
+
* [[!wikipedia Church-Rosser theorem]]
* [[!wikipedia Normalization property]]
* [[!wikipedia Turing completeness]]
* [Scooping the Loop Snooper](http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/CompTheory/scooping.pdf), a proof of the undecidability of the halting problem in the style of Dr Seuss by Geoffrey K. Pullum
-* [[!wikipedia Church encoding]]
-
-##[[Learning Scheme]]##
## Recursion and the Y Combinator ##
@@ -76,14 +95,7 @@ get more out of. (Rinse and repeat.)
* [Y Combinator for Dysfunctional Non-Schemers](http://rayfd.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/y-combinator-for-dysfunctional-non-schemers/)
* [The Y Combinator](http://www.ece.uc.edu/~franco/C511/html/Scheme/ycomb.html)
* [The Y Combinator](http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/cs245/ycomb_jim.html) derives the applicative-order Y-combinator from scratch, in Scheme. This derivation is similar in flavor to the derivation found in The Little Schemer, but uses a slightly different starting approach...
-
-## Evaluation Order ##
-
-* [[!wikipedia Evaluation strategy]]
-* [[!wikipedia Eager evaluation]]
-* [[!wikipedia Lazy evaluation]]
-* [[!wikipedia Strict programming language]]
-
+* [The church of the least fixed point, by Sans Pareil](http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4t2v573m58g2755/)
## Types ##