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A comment on SHRDLU (1971).

Re:SHRDLU (1971) by bjackman on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:04PM (#14354470)
This program is discussed amongst a whirlwind of beautiful insight in Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher Bach". I doubt I'm in the first 1,000 people to recommend that book on HN but I think it would be remiss to have a thread about SHRDLU without it being mentioned!
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Re:SHRDLU (1971) by s_kilk on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:07AM (#14356738)
I've just finished my first read of GEB last night, and was delighted to see this thread pop up :)

Great book, essential reading for anyone involved in Programming and/or Comp Sci.

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Re:SHRDLU (1971) by eduren on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:58PM (#14355287)
Wow, I saw this thread after just reading that chapter over lunch.

My first time reading GEB and I'm absolutely captured.

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