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The Y Combinator: Anonymous Recursion in C#

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Since when is this crap within the mission of Hacker News? Someone at Y Combinator should get this off the site!

Only C# could make something so elegant look and work so ugly.

Only C#? Sir, you obviously haven't spent any time with C++.

I have - I've managed to blocked that part of my memory for the last 12 years!

Could you, please, provide a more elegant example in other statically typed language.

My point entirely!

Coming from not-overly-sunny MSR Cambridge, but now sorta in the same division as the C# team, F#:

  let rec y f x = f (y f) x

As a general note, C# tends to get very verbose very quickly if you choose to take up too much of a functional style with it.