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A very long time ago, mathematicians like Alonzo Church, Moses Schönfinkel, Alan Turning, and Haskell Curry and asked themselves if we really needed all these features to perform computations. They searched for a radically simpler set of tools that could accomplish all of the same things.
A very long time ago, mathematicians like Alonzo Church, Moses Schönfinkel, Alan Turning, and Haskell Curry asked themselves if we really needed all these features to perform computations. They searched for a radically simpler set of tools that could accomplish all of the same things.

They established that arbitrary computations could be represented a small set of axiomatic components. For example, we don't need arrays to represent lists, or even POJOs to represent nodes in a linked list. We can model lists just using functions.

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*This post was extracted from the in-progress book, [JavaScript Allongé, The "Six" Edition][ja6]. Your feedback helps everyone, so please, join the discussion or submit an edit directly. Thank you!*—Reg "raganwald" Braithwaite
*This post was extracted from the in-progress book, [JavaScript Allongé, The "Six" Edition][ja6]. Your feedback helps everyone, so please, join the discussion or submit an edit directly. Thank you!*—Reg "raganwald" Braithwaite