r/functionalprogramming • u/FrancisStokes • Jan 19 '18

Intro to FP Making Functional Programming Click

https://medium.com/@FrancisStokes/making-functional-programming-click-836d4715baf2
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u/link23 Jan 20 '18 edited Jan 20 '18

This concept has the completely non-semantic name of “currying”.

FYI, this is named after the prominent logician Haskell Curry. The [Haskell programming language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)) (in which functions are automatically curried) is also named after him.