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More people would be confused if you dispelled the term "meta" than are confused by its use today.

Similarly: there is no particularly good reason to use the term "lambda" for anonymous function constructs --- its use traces back to a typesetting quirk of Alonzo Church's. But here we are today, typing "lambda" like a bunch of chumps. :)



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