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jevndevyesterday at 7:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Reasonably certain the practice of naming combinators after birds comes from “To mock a mockingbird” by Raymond Smullyan. Don’t have the book on hand to verify but figured I’d drop it here because it’s a great bunch of logical puzzles


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jibaltoday at 12:22 AM

As it says in the footnote of TFA.