On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jan Theodore Galkowski wrote:

> What do you mean by "elegance" here?  Is it something other than the
> sheer basicness of lambda calculus?  Or something else? 

"Elegance. Beauty that springs from the union of power and simplicity."
  (Gary H. Anthes)

see
	http://www.computerworld.com/home/features.nsf/all/980420id

and also the /. discussion
	http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/980718/1321229.shtml

This is not Self-specific, but a lot of that applies to it.

  -Bert-