A Flock of Functions: Combinators, Lambda Calculus, & Church Encodings in JS
This repo contains notes and runnable examples of the lambda calculus as expressed through JavaScript.
Visit https://glebec.github.io/lambda-talk for a formatted version of the code.
The runnable JS file is in src/index.js
. Execute the file is by cloning this repo and running npm start
. Or, view the REPL here.
This repo was created as an accompaniment to a lecture talk given at Fullstack Academy of Code on 2017-08-24. You can view videos of that talk (in two parts) below:
Click to view the original slide deck.
Update: the first part of the presentation has been slightly modified over time; the deck used for the 2019-10 Smartly.io DevTalks can be seen here.