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enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("πππ ENKI ][e") wrote:
Lambda calculus specifically has been used this way by multiple different generations of nerd-poseurs! Remember that early LISPers at Stanford started the "Knights of Lambda Calculus" secret society & then it turned out that most of them thought LISP and lambda calculus were the same thing.
(It's probably because of the influence of this group that the current crowd has attached itself)