8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
6:39 a.m.
On 08/03/07, Dan Weston
Do not let the multiple responses of how you apparently wasted your time reinventing (or do they mean stealing?) something Church did long ago dampen your enthusiasm to learn exciting things and then share them.
I agree with your sentiment that discovering things is fun, no matter how many times it has been done before. But I don't think the other respondents were critical. I read them as properly congratulatory, not sarcastic. It's not everyone that gets to claim they had the same idea as Alonzo Church! ;-) Maybe we need a You Could Have Invented Church Encoding (And Maybe You Already Have) [1] blog post somewhere... D. [1]: http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html