[plt-scheme] Why do layman programmers care about Currying?

From: Joe Marshall (jmarshall at alum.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 31 01:43:15 EST 2008

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> Why do layman (working programmers) care about Currying? Or how are
> they applied in daily use to help one out?

You  might enjoy reading this article:

@techreport{ leavens94fields,
    author = "Gary T. Leavens",
    title = "Fields in Physics are like Curried Functions or Physics
for Functional Programmers",
    number = "94-06b",
    address = "Ames, Iowa, 50011",
    year = "1994",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/leavens94fields.html" }

The title says it all.

-- 
~jrm


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