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I'm not sure "calculus" has a technical meaning in the same sense "algebra" does, and, as mentioned by tel, the use is mostly historical. But note that other historical simple languages such as combinator systems are often referred to as calculi, like the SKI-calculus. In modern programming language theory, formal models of languages are informally referred to as "calculi" as well, mostly as a reference to the lambda calculus.


Interestingly, the SKI calculus is an algebra.




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