Deriving the Y combinator – The If WorksBefore I start in on this: be aware I’m mostly writing this to force myself to understand something by writing it down. If you get anything out of it, consider it a bonus. I will be deriving Y() in JavaScrpit, and giving a version in Ruby. After stumbling on this article on Raganwald last year (thoroughly interesting site by the way), I was initially intrigued and then totally frustrated by not be
