fragmentary ideas ䷿ intellectual what-nots ䷷ and haskell programming ䷴

Computer science is a fascinating and maddening thing. Even the most seemingly-esoteric topics turn out to be fundamental. Go out to the fringes of CS and you find yourself smack in the middle of Philosophy. You try to understand a single point and you suddenly find yourself embracing everything.

So this post comes from that infinitely-recursive rabbit hole of wikipedia topics I’ve been falling down for the last few weeks, and you can probably expect a few more like this one; I’ll try to keep focused.

We begin (as do All Good Things) with the Untyped Lambda Calculus:
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