Applications To Programming Languages
In programming, the routines (functions, procedures, methods) of strongly typed programming languages closely correspond to typed lambda expressions. Eiffel has a notion of "inline agent" that makes it possible to define and manipulate typed lambda expressions directly, through such expressions as agent (p: PERSON): STRING do Result := p.spouse.name end, denoting an object that represents a function which returns a person's spouse's name.
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