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Poor Alonzo!
Researcher 170889 Started conversation Jul 12, 2001
So Haskell Curry and Alonzo Church develop lambda and Haskell gets both Haskell and Currying named after him and Alonzo gets nothing? I call that unfair! Although I suppose if someone approached me and asked if I knew Church, my first thought would be to run for the hills!
Poor Alonzo!
OwlofDoom Posted Feb 2, 2003
Alonzo Church actually gets the system of Church Numerals named after him. These totally useless and clumsy-looking functions are a way of specifying the natural numbers (integers from 0 onwards) as pure lambda functions.
I always thought Alonzo got a bit hard done by there.
I promise that if I'm ever involved in a project to develop another language based on this calculus, I'll force the developers to name it Alonzo. 
~ Owl 
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