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In case you are wondering about the What of Y (as I was). Here is a paragraph from the PDF: "The point of Y is to provide a mechanism to write self-referential
by daveguy 10y ago
In case you are wondering about the What of Y (as I was). Here is a paragraph from the PDF:
"The point of Y is to provide a mechanism to write self-referential programs without a special built-in
means of accomplishing it. In Scheme there are several mechanisms for writing such programs,
including global function definitions and letrec. Here is one way to write the factorial function in
Scheme:..."
- dreamcompiler 10y agoIt's an article about the thing this website (and company) is named after. Hence it's probably the most meta-recursive link that ever gets posted on HN. (BTW Dick Gabriel is a Zen-Lisper and poet. Wise programmers read everything he writes.)
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