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Richard Gabriel also tried to explain Y:

http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/WhyOfY.pdf




P.S. This is the best explanation of combinators I've seen on the web (and includes Y of course):

http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/Lambda/index.htm




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