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Cute name. I wonder to what extent the language has anything to do with Frege's work in logic. I mean Haskell's last name was Curry, and currying is a big deal in FP. Thankfully that wasn't named after Moses Schoenfinkel.

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Actually, I've heard of German professors who used the word "Schoenfinkeln" instead of "currying". You sometimes get people who try to fight the English influence off at all costs ;)

If you want that in Haskell, there's a package for it

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/acme-schoenfinkel

This is easy, Frege is (to my knowledge) the first one who mentions "functions, that take other functions as arguments".

In other words: higher order functions.

Hey, I'd love to use a language named Moses. You'd have all sorts of great puns and iconography available for library names.

That said, I always felt that "Finkel" would be a cute name for an FP language, service or library... I call dibs!

If that's the case, maybe you should name if after Raphael Finkel. [1]

Disclaimer: I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Finkel here at university a few times before I stumbled across his name in Wikipedia and in the front of a book in the library. Totally not biased.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel

With its packaging system called Einhorn.

It very likely does. Also note there's a deep connection between functional programming and logic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspond...

Let me introduce you to the legendary Tokyo Schönfinkel Appreciation Club:

http://www.cynic.net/tsac.html

I hate to say it, but when Schönfinkel Curried, he in fact Freged, as even currying was anticipated by Frege.

See here, for example: http://books.google.de/books?id=OeAPiy-6L74C&pg=PA134&lpg=PA...

Schoenfinkel was my second choice for a name my compiler project. Not a fan, huh? :)

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