Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Knights of the Lambda-Calculus is a semi-mythical organisation of expert LISP and Scheme hackers. The name refers to the lambda calculus, a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected. There is no enrollment list and the criteria for induction are unclear, but one well-known LISPer has been known to give out buttons and, in general, the *members* know who they are. This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.