ArticleY Combinator
Every now and again you hear developers at some programming event talking about this fabled myth of a function, the understanding of which will transcend you to a new plane of programming. Well, challenge accepted. Spoiler, I am still among us mortals. Thinking About the Problem The first place you go: wiki. If you are anything like me, lambda calculus hurts your head and only paints a fuzzy picture. Heavy math aside, what problem does it solve? It lets us have recursio...