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Finding Joy in Combinators

Stefan Tilkov,

Reg Braithwaite:

In previous posts, we have looked at a few interesting combinators and some Ruby code inspired by them. Today we'll review the definition of a combinator, and from there we'll learn something intriguing about an entire family of programming languages, the concatenative languages.