Lambda Calculus

Lambda Calculus is a tiny functional language for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application.

This project is intended to be an educational resource for learning and implementing functional programming languages.

Introduction to Lambda Calculus

An introduction to Lambda Calculus is provided. The tutorial can be found at

doc/lambda-calculus.md

Extended Examples

More examples can be found in the test-suite, located at

test/Language/Lambda/Examples

Implementation

A simple implementation of lambda calculus is included. It is written in Haskell and is implemented to be as easy to follow, at the possible expense of performance.

Building

In order to build, you will need

• GHC
• cabal-install
• stack

Build:

stack build

Then install:

stack install

Running

Once the program is installed, you simply run it:

lambda-calculator

This will open a repl (read-eval-print loop) prompt

Lambda Calculator (0.5.0)
Type :h for help

You can start typing lambda calculus expressions and the program will evaluate them and print the result. Here are a few examples:

Lambda Calculator (0.5.0)
Type :h for help
λ > \x. x
λx. x
λ > (\x. x) n
n
λ > (\n f x. f (n f x)) (\f x. f (f x))
λf x. f (f (f x))
λ > :q

You can exit by typing the command :q.

Running Tests

In order to run the testsuite, run

stack test

Author

Sean Gillespie sean@mistersg.net

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE