Reginald Braithwaite personal blog
Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript
In this essay, after a brief review of the work we’ve already done on the Mockingbird, we’ll derive the Why Bird, known most famously as the Y Combinator . The why bird provides all the benefits of the mockingbird, but allows us to write more idiomatic JavaScript. We’ll see that one of the benefits of writing…
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Software EngineeringMath & Algorithms2018
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2018 | Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript by braythwayt | 200 | 71 |
