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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Knights of the Lambda Calculus</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../K.html" title="K"/><link rel="previous" href="kluge-up.html" title="kluge up"/><link rel="next" href="knobs.html" title="knobs"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Knights of the Lambda Calculus</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="kluge-up.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">K</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="knobs.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Knights-of-the-Lambda-Calculus"/><dt xmlns="" id="Knights-of-the-Lambda-Calculus"><b>Knights of the Lambda Calculus</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers.
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The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with
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which LISP is intimately connected. There is no enrollment list and the
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criteria for induction are unclear, but one well-known LISPer has been
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known to give out buttons and, in general, the <span class="emphasis"><em>members</em></span>
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