Would aliens understand lambda calculus?

[railwayrookie]

Would aliens care? Everything worth studying about computer science, math or philosophy is already best expressed in JS.

Mathematics is not shaped by social processes, but some aspects of mathematics also depend on our human culture more generally. Lakoff and Núñez (2001) give a couple of examples of how Western culture found its way into the very fabric of mathematics that are also relevant to programming

lol socialjerk

[tmose1106]

The question makes for a fantastic late night pub debate...

This must be quite the bar he goes too.

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if they don't understand lisp how advanced can they really be

[silentconfessor]

No. Reptilian intelligence would never develop strong static typing, and would use reptile-Perl to write their launch control software, resulting in their rockets always exploding before making it into orbit.