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What is a Y Combinator?

• JamilD 10y ago
  For those (like me) that prefer learning through talks and demonstrations, Jim Wierich gave an incredible talk on the Y Combinator at RubyConf 2012. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs Code: https://github.com/jimweirich/presentation_ynot https://github.com/jimweirich/presentation_ynot
• DelaneyM 10y ago
  For any ES6-ers around here: le=>(f=>f(f))(f=>le(x=>(f(f))(x)));
• aargh_aargh 10y ago
  Should have (2008) in the title. > Posted on Aug. 14th, 2008 at 08:44 am
• aappleby 10y ago
  Wrote this a while back but didn't get much feedback - might be helpful if you know more Javascript than Scheme. https://medium.com/@tanjent/refactoring-out-a-y-combinator-99427d483186#.j1c72ia7f https://medium.com/@tanjent/refactoring-out-a-y-combinator-9...