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Nice. Very thorough article, that touches more concepts of functional programming than just Y like tail recursion.

For someone who never had contact with functional programming, the concept of the Y combinator can seem a bit... strange. But trying to figure out what it is and does can be a real eye opener.




I always thought windows was the only exe opener

Edit: ah, you fixed the typo ;)




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