Subject: Re: J design questions
From: mslamm@pluto.cc.huji.ac.il (Zvi Lamm)
Date: 5 Feb 1995 16:43:28 GMT
References: <19950201.173704.20573@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>

William Chang <wchang@CB.CSHL.ORG> writes:

>Ehud Lamm asks whether J's hook was "luck, intuition or something else?"
>Perhaps Roger Hui will comment.

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I'd really love that..

>In a 1924 paper titled "On the building blocks of mathematical logic",
>Scho"nfinkel described a small number of primitive universal combinators,
>one of which is the "fusion function" S,

Thanks for the reference. I was wondering wether J's hooks forks etc. are
based on combinatorial logic or were invented seperately.

By the way, for a great book on combinatorial logic see Smullyan's "To
Mock a Mockingbird"

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