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Re:The Beauty of Clojure by nnq on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @03:04AM (#10121514)
If you start thinking along the lines of first principles you could just as well start with a NAND gate.

..because some people were even smart enough to pull this off: http://www.nand2tetris.org/ :)

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Re:The Beauty of Clojure by kaonashi on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @11:18AM (#10123463)
McCarthy had something to say about this... http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf
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Re:The Beauty of Clojure by agumonkey on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @03:39PM (#10125499)
Which paper is the one with the symbolic differentiator ?
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Re:The Beauty of Clojure by agumonkey on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @05:11AM (#10121893)
Recursive first principles. I don't think n2t will put the emphasis on that (no offense, I love their work and results, something I wished for years).
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