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Show HN: Eater-eaters, a thinly veiled metaphor

1 points| notb | 13 years ago |eatereater.tumblr.com | reply

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[+] notb|13 years ago|reply
In honor of the Y-Combinator, here's a nearly equivalent fixed-point combinator named Gordan.

  An eater, Ditto
    who becomes Ditto's food eating
      Ditto's food
  
  An eater, Gordon
    who becomes Ditto eating
      an eater, Freeman
        who becomes
        Gordon's food eating
          Freeman's food eating
            Freeman's food.