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“[Currying] Named after Haskell Curry, one of the inventors of combinatory logic. Curry
always insisted that he got the idea of using h from M. Schönfinkel’s [Sch24] (see
[CF58, pp. 8, 10]), but most workers seem to prefer to pronounce ‘currying’ rather
than ‘schönfinkeling’. The idea also appeared in 1893 in [Fre93, Vol. 1, Section 4].”
― Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: An Introduction
always insisted that he got the idea of using h from M. Schönfinkel’s [Sch24] (see
[CF58, pp. 8, 10]), but most workers seem to prefer to pronounce ‘currying’ rather
than ‘schönfinkeling’. The idea also appeared in 1893 in [Fre93, Vol. 1, Section 4].”
― Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: An Introduction
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