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"This is absolutely terribly pedantic and..."

Don't worry. You're in the right place :-)

Don't worry Y in Ycombinator is for pedantic XD

Actually if we're being pedantic, it's capitalized as YCombinator.

Y Combinator ;)

But Why Combinator?

Fixpoints are too powerful a concept to be added safely to any but the most pedantic minds.