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Yea, that’s pretty accurate. So now I’m curious what you thought the site was named after?

Edit: It’s not that accurate. It’s just math used in a way to compose parsers using parsers.

Never gave it a moment's thought. Now after Googling it, I still wouldn't know because I don't program LISP (well I haven't since 1986, but that was only an intro in college). Interesting to read about it.

You can use most of the concepts in any language that allows first class functions, closures, pattern matching and types. Combinators are just ways to compose a function to create a new function that executes some aspect upon a set (usually).

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