Talk:Director string

Hi, I'm unsure about the notability of this article. Google scholar says the Fernandez-Mackie-Sinot article has 13 citations (7 non-self citations), and the Sinot article has 3 citations (2 non-self). I'm not sure this makes this a notable concept... Is there other justification? (I don't intend any disrespect to user:linas, who took some time to make this article.) Sam (talk) 15:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sam, next time, let me know on my talk page. Director strings are of interest as a means of program normalization for some AI work that I'm involved in, see the opencog project, and particularly the Transformation of Complex Programs page. The goal of creating this page was to provide a simple gloss on the general concept, to provide a simple intro for younger students.

As to notability, beta-reduction is a central step of lambda calculus, and any sort of practical work with lambda calculus, or any sort of program complexity work with lambda calculs, has to deal with beta reduction. So I would think that alone makes in "notable enough". linas (talk) 03:32, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]