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Ask HN: What does Y Combinator mean?

1 points by o_s_m 12 years ago | 3 comments

How did it get its name?

cwperkins 12 years ago |

Its a fixed point combinator in lambda calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combin...

dalke 12 years ago |

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator_%28company%29

o_s_m 12 years ago | |

Thank you.