> Lisp usually prefers expressive names over terse Greek letters, but lambda is an exception. A better name would be make-function. #Lambda derives from the notation in #Russell and #Whitehead's #PrincipiaMathematica, which used a caret over bound variables.. Church wanted a one-dimensional string, so he moved the caret in front.. The caret looked funny with nothing below it, so..
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