First thanks for the up-vote. Let me see if I can try to explain it a little more linearly and see if it helps. You have a generic function that you pass in a r

First thanks for the up-vote. Let me see if I can try to explain it a little more linearly and see if it helps. You have a generic function that you pass in a reference to another function, the generic function does a generic routine and then calls the reference function at a specific point. The reference function then returns a value that the generic function uses to give it a calculation that it wil use in its routine. The interesting part is the reference function can have scope visibility outside of the generic function. This allows for very loose coupling, where one can inject a function into a master function and all scope for the referenced function can be abstracted away from the generic function. It makes the only hard contract between the two the return value of the referenced function and possibly the parameters. It eliminates the need for interfaces or tight coupling to build systems such as listeners, notifiers, callbacks and event systems. I hope that helps, if it is just a convoluted, then I am sorry. Delegates are a pretty abstract subject and I may not be the best at explaining them.